Rhythm and Cloth

Fashion Film

Paris Fashion Week 2025

Original Music

Sound Sampling

A composition built from the mechanical rhythm of a working textile factory.

Rhythm and Cloth project hero image

The Place

The music began inside a working textile factory.

Before writing a melody, Masashi listened to the repeated motion of the weaving machines—their uneven accents, metallic resonance, and physical pulse.

Textile factory interior related to Rhythm and Cloth

The Sound

The machinery was not treated as background noise.

Its sound was sampled and brought into the composition as musical material.

Translation into Music

The pulse of the factory became part of the structure of the piece, connecting machinery, fabric, movement, and the human body.

The sound was not added as decoration. It became one of the reasons the music took the form it did.

Music production screen for Rhythm and Cloth

The Film

The visual material was filmed inside the textile environment where the sound originated.

The completed work connects the place, the movement of the machines, the images, and the music as parts of one continuous experience.

Listening positions.

Credits

Music
Masashi Hasegawa
Film Direction
Teppei Sugiura
Role
Original Music and Sound Sampling

The rhythm already existed in the room. The composition began by listening.

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