What is it about?
The article covers the design and motivation for an artefact that allows people to create and react to sound while moving. The sound can also be remotely shared so people can interact with one another. The approach was designed to get away from camera-based solutions for tracking dancers or video conferencing solutions for mediating performances. Thus, the approach aims to be less invasive in homes, affordable and open, as well as more inclusive to people with poor vision or health conditions.
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Why is it important?
In a distributed world where people are connected around the globe, collaborative approaches are becoming more important. Reducing the need for travel or offering more inclusive approaches for participating in dance/movement performances has the potential to create an entirely new space of possibilities for collaboration.
Perspectives
The project offers a unique cross-transdisciplinary opportunity to explore movement, sound and computational creativity with an entirely new sub-domain of possible research directions by focusing on smaller, more contained and sustainable solutions to AI and technology which is not guided by tech interests but the interests of movers and dancers.
Swen Gaudl
Goteborgs Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Sonic Dancer: A Low-Cost, Sound-Based Device to Explore Shared Movement and Dance Through Generative Live Soundscapes, interactions, January 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3636438.
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