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From: jboggs@inco.UUCP (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: dancing midi
Message-ID: <7947@inco.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 14:39:08 GMT
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Reply-To: jboggs@inco.UUCP (John Boggs)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <9003@chaph.usc.edu> alves@nunki.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
>Mark Coniglio at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal-Arts) in Valencia
>has developed a series of accelerometers which are placed on a dancer's body.
>When the dancer moves that part of the body in a particular axis of motion,
>a MIDI signal is sent over radio control to a computer. (more stuff...)

I saw a performance several years ago by the Flying Karamazov Brothers
(excellent jugglers for those of you who don't know).  In one of the routines,
one juggler wore trigger pads (similar to electronic drum triggers only 
smaller) on his arms (forearms, palms, upper arms), his legs (tops of the
feet, inside of the calf, top of the thigh), his forehead, and his chest.
Additionally, he wore four traditional (full size) electronic drum pads
mounted on a harness so that one projected above each shoulder and one
projected to the side next to each hip.

Connected to this (by wires) was an little red wagon filled with MIDI
rack modules.

When he juggled various balls and clubs, he bounced them off the various
triggers and drum pads to produce a variety of rythmic and tonic combi-
nations which fit together very nicely.  It was a great routine.  All-in-
all, a pretty interesting arrangement for "alternate controllers".




-- 
John Boggs

McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company
McLean, Virginia, USA