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Floor vibrations
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 effect of ‘where’ the vibrations are created on the floor.
Piezo transducers, also called contact microphones only pickup the vibrations of whatever they ‘touch’, but their [...]
Radio soundscaping
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 radio transmitters around a room, each one attached to an iPod, all playing different songs and then I will have dancers listening to a radio, [...]
Sweat detector continued
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 saying that the pupil is pushing him/herself hard enough. Or in other words: “if you don’t see you sweating you can leave class!”.
I will try [...]
Sound conductor continued
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 the sensual proximity between (often complete) strangers when they dance salsa in a social dancing environment. Salsa parties are often organized at bars of clubs [...]
Experiment 2.0: Moisture detectors
For this experiment I prepared a very straighforward moisture detector - used to measure the moistness of plants - and investigated if this device measures valuables or works with a threshold (either on or off). It has an LED that goes on when moisture is detected. The LED would light up to a lesser or [...]
Experiment 1.3 Human sound conductor wireless
In order to wire the set-up onto two dancer’s bodies, it needs to be more mobile, which would entail cutting the wires because they are most restricting. In the previous experiment we were able to cut the ’signal’ wire, but we had to keep the ground wire intact to close the circuit. Cutting the ground [...]
Project proposal (draft)
“Embodied dance technologies” (working title)”
Embodied Technologies is a research project that explores possible relationships between dance and technologies that deals with dance as a fundamentally embodied experience and expressive and emotional medium. A series of explorations will deal with dance with an augmented expressive body, dance as a networked (possibly interactive) performance and the [...]
Recoding Word Frequency Counter in Perl
We made the wordfrequency counter look at word combinations and how often they occur. Obviously in this text all combinations only occurred once but thats fine. We did this by adding another hash to the read_text subroutine that was already in the script
$prevseen{$prevword . “-” . $word}++;
print $prevword;
$prevword = $word;
which basically tells it to read [...]