by Isaac Roth

Our current project involves controlling moving lighting instruments (the kind you see in rock concerts) and music based on the movements of dancers. We use several sensors that control lighting and sound.

The sensors are placed on the dancer. I also have hooked up a few pressure – switch type sensors to the I-CubeX. They’re strips like you see on the inside of a public bus that you push to tell the driver you want a stop. They work well. I’ve hooked up a couple different types of rangefinders, and some weird inductive stuff. But for now I like the bend sensors.

Several works using this system (or pieces of it) have been performed for the public at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA during the 1999 Summer Concert.

25 july 1998