zsanett szirmay / sound weaving

Zsanett Szirmay is a Hungarian artist and designer whose project Soundweaving translates traditional embroidery patterns into music. Using cross-stitch motifs from Hungarian and matyó folk textiles, she encodes designs onto punched paper rolls, which are then played on a mechanical music box. This process transforms visual heritage into sound, creating an interplay between craft, technology, and sensory experience. By reinterpreting textile ornamentation as musical notation, Szirmay highlights cultural memory while bridging past and present. Her work celebrates the tactile and auditory, showing how traditional crafts can evolve into innovative, cross-disciplinary forms of contemporary art and design.