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With over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what-when of why we wear.

I am April Callahan and my regular co-host, Cassidy Zachary, and I are fashion historians.

If you are up to date on our most recent episodes, you already know that Cass is currently on

maternity leave, but fear not, she will be back with us on the show later this summer.

And in the meantime, you might hear a few re-airings of older episodes, which we have deemed

dressed classics, as they are some of our favorites, as well as some of the newer things that I

have been working on. And one of those things is today's episode. And this episode is actually now

a few years in the making, believe it or not, because in 2020, addressed listener and contemporary

artist Nicole Cook reached out to us about an exceptionally unique project that she had been working

on that involved musical compositions executed by way of a sewing machine.

And it goes to say that I was most intrigued by this, and she went ahead and shared some of her

work with us, and we corresponded back and forth for a bit about it. And the rest of that story

is fashion history now, because today she joins us on the show to discuss her newest incarnations

of her performance work with the sewing machine as a musical instrument, as well as her other work,

which takes place under this umbrella of a project entitled series archive. Clothing, fashion,

textiles, performance, gender, and quote-unquote women's work, all lay at the core of each work

within the series archive. And we can't wait to explore it all on dressed. So let's do it.

Nicole, welcome to dressed. Finally, and I say finally, because you and I have been in conversation

for some time about your work, and we are so pleased that we get to discuss it with you today.

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