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Re: dancing loops
Title: Re: dancing loops
At 9:36 PM -0400 9/23/02, RandomLFO@aol.com wrote:
FWIW, there
is the I-Cube system by Infusion Systems. (www.infusionsystems.com)
The I-Cube has a lot of sensors (Like tilt and tap) designed to allow
the dancers to either trigger MIDI events, or send CC messages. there
is also the BodySynth (www.synthzone.com/bsynth.html), and various
gloves designed for MIDI (I-cube also has gloves). The ControllerZone
has an interesting collection of controllers
(www.synthzone.com/ctrlr.htm). Some of these may provide some nice
options for Loopers.
At 12:07 PM -0700 9/24/02, SRice wrote:
For midi input from the dancers or myself
as I dance,
I have the fairly simple idea of putting a potentiometer
in some hand-held wrapper(how about a Nerf ball!) and using
the MidiSolutions pedal-to-cc gizmo to tweak the looper or
effects processor. This would require only the midi
converter box, pot, and some wire to do(I think. Maybe
also a six-pack to bribe some local electrical engineer.
JW, what's your favorite brew? ;-) ) This
would
definitely _not_ be traditional Contact,
but lots of fun!
For those in the Los Angeles area, we'll be having an American
Composers Forum Technology Salon on October 15th, devoted to
Interactive Media Performance and featuring Mark Coniglio and his
partner Dawn Stoppiello, along with Clay Chaplin. Mark is the inventor
of the MidiDancer hardware and Isadora software used by their dance
theater company Troika Ranch.
<http://www.troikaranch.org>
<http://www.troikaranch.org/technology.html>
<http://www.troikaranch.org/mididancer.html>
<http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html>
There are many composers, dancers, and choreographers working in
various forms of dance technology. There is even a dance technology
mailing list <http://art.net/%7Edtz/maillist.html> and an
International Dance and Technology organization
<http://idat.org/idat/>. I don't know how active this
organization is, since their Web site is a bit out of date, but they
do have a useful set of links at
<http://art.net/%7Edtz/links.html>