Wearable Music Workshopping: Instrumented + Non-Instrumented Movers

Three of the five dancers are wearing headsets that transmit absolute orientation data (parts sourced from Adafruit) to Ableton Live. A variety of particle synthesizers are used (pulsar, granular) that respond to both individual and collective movement parameters. Two dancers are without headsets, which was found to be choreographically most engaging for the group.

Sound synthesis and wearables by Dr. Seth Dominicus Thorn (www.seththorn.net)

Movement direction by Halley Willcox (@haywillupassthesalt)

Dancers: Ella Alzua, Courtney Ngai (@ninjangai1), Jenny Gerena, Shannon Smith, Halley Willcox

Filmed at the iStage at Arizona State University.