Phonarch · Bryant McNeil

I don't create merch.I translate frequencies.These are artifacts of sound.

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Studio manifesto

From a recording, a garment.

Every Phonarch piece begins as audio. Bring me a song, a field recording, a single sustained note — a single sound — and I score it: tempo into seam placement, harmonics into drape, volume into structure. The recording is the blueprint; the garment is the artifact.

No two pieces repeat. The studio is small and the work is one-of-one. Each piece is cut, sewn and finished in-house by me, Bryant McNeil, the maker behind every Phonarch artifact to date.

From studio to wearer

Each piece moves through three movements.

From the first note in the studio to the finished garment on the rack, the path a recording takes is small, deliberate, and entirely in-house.

01Listen
Every piece begins as audio — a song on repeat, a field recording, a single sustained note. The studio listens first, then translates.
02Score
I translate the waveform into a garment pattern: tempo becomes seam placement, harmonics become drape, volume becomes structure.
03Sew
One piece, cut and constructed in the studio. No two Sonic Artifacts repeat — once a piece is sold, it's gone.
More from the studio

Other artifacts, on the loom and on the rack.

A look at finished and in-progress pieces — image, paired note when there's a recording, and a path to the full entry.

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Choose your path.

Shop the available pieces, or browse the portfolio for the full line of finished one-of-one work.