To further explore the possibilities that piezo transducers offer I will make a floor grid of connected piezos. They will be connected to four independent amplifier/speakers to create a 3D
A third experiment is to create a soundscape to manipulate the strong relationship between music and dance movements in many dance forms. I will strategically place three or four FM
The experiment with the moisture detectors will be elaborated as well. I will again comment on a personal experience of mine where sweat is a signal to a ballet teacher
I will try to elaborate the human sound conductor experiment from last term (please see this post, and this one) and will set up a system that jokingly comments on
This last term I will continue my investigation of the potential relationships between dance and technology. Whereas last term I had a very experimental approach that was based primarily on
A mind map of my essay for Culture Industries to be discussed in class: Interaction: Body, Space, Technology and Politics in the work of Shu Lea Cheang
Self Learning Contract I will try to break my patterns of thought and open them up to interruptions, intuition and experimentation. I will try to trust the fact that
I made the moisture detector setup with the Arduino Lilypad. There’s a few things that are limiting: the Lilypad can only take a maximum of 5V, so I’d have to
I’ve ordered an Arduino Lilypad and have been looking at some applications of wearable technologies that might be useful in a dance setting. TOUCH - Human conductor I found conductive textile called
It might be very interesting to think of a dance/technology project with a focus on contact improvisation: an improvisational dance form that emphasises contact between the dancers, being led by
So I’ve done a few experiments now, setting up systems and getting values. But I haven’t been able to take any of them for a testdrive. And of course what