Jumper
Interaction Ideas II
Jumper: 1. Interaction with Music Both sleeves can trigger one sound / audio clip taken from the original soundtrack. Every circle on the dancefloor is connected to two sounds, in total twelve different soundclips (one for every sleeve). By moving the sleeves with the accelerometers, the sounds are influenced through timestretching. These specific sounds are […]
Staccato Chute
Motor_Power_Control
The motors that move the chutes are small but rather strong. At 12 Volts they pull around one or two Amps when they are mounted to a chute. During the first test with the motor controllers, we discovered that when a motor is suddenly turned the opposite way, a reversed current arises. Using an ordinary […]
Platform_Dancefloor_Pattern
Today we’ve finished the floor! Well… almost. The platform was build by Joris Ringers. We put the velostat sensors on it and tested them if the signal was good enough to sense by an arduino. The floor measures 2 by 2 meters. It is made from 1 square meter wooden tiles. On top there will be the 0,50 by […]
Fan_Chute_Test
Today we’ve tested the red/white chute again. This time with the right fans; two 35cm diameter fans and one 45 cm diameter fan. The airflow is much stronger from the bigger fan since the motor is 40 watts stronger. With that in mind, we positioned the bigger fan further away from the chute. By placing […]
Merce Cunningham
A few remarks about Merce Cunningham. (Centralia, 16 april 1919 – New York City, 26 juli 2009). His artistic credo: every movement can be dance every method of composition can create a choreography every part of the body can be used in the dance: isolations dance can be about everything but is first and foremost about the […]
Interaction Ideas I
It’s time to start formulating clear ideas about the actual interaction between the participant wearing the wearable, the floor and the parachutes. What are the questions we are trying to answer? For the installation in EYE, I limited the amount of possible wearables to two. The two directly related to Antic Meet of Merce Cunningham: the chair and the knitted […]
Motor_Testing_Timing
The last couple of days we’ve been testing our motors more intensely. The metalworker Peter delivered a very nice job: a slim but sturdy housing for the motor that will move the big chute. As soon as we got it in our hands, we suspended it with a chute and watched with wonder how the fabric reacted […]
Sensor_Pressure_Velostat
Some of you might know Velostat. The electrically conductive packaging plastic for circuits and computer components. Nowadays it’s often used as a sensor material. When you connect two leads from the plastic to an analogue port of a microcontroller, you can sense if there is pressure on the material. We’ve been trying different ways of […]
