Re: dancing loops

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

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 I don't know how active this organization is, since their Web site is a bit out of date, but they do have a useful set of links at 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>