Research

Conceptual links

http://www.icst.net/research/projects/musical-gesture/

This discusses the issues found in connecting sound with movement and that "The fundamental issue of combining dance with interaction and music is that the experience, training and perception of the performers in the domains of dance and music do not cover the same emphasis of performing music or gesture."

Also it discusses stratagies of connecting the different expereinces of music and dance. Stratageis of using perceptual spaces such as related-to-gesture and related-to-sound perception this helps in “Mapping” the movement and specifying the type of movements.

Technical links

These sources helps us in how to conncect the force sensor with the arduino and soft circut of the shoe and the accelerometer with the buzzer all together.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/07_sound.html

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/sensors/fsr.html

As well as the code for the different frequencies to get the different notes.

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

Steps: Shoe interaction with buzzer Video

Prosses Images

The soft curcit of the sole of the shoe with the force sensor

the shoe!

The intergrated arduino with the accelerometer and buzzer.

Revised and Finalized Sketch 2

After discussing with the proffessors we have revised our idea and decided that we will keep the same concept of sound in relation to movements and potentialy dance. In order to do this we will have to constrain the movement to one leg and specify the type of movements. As well we want to differenciating between the sound in relation to the different movements.

Movements: Slide, tapping with toe and heel, sliding with toe or heel or both.

Sketch 2 Concept Sketch/Technical

Our initial idea of having an environment change in accordance with how you

move your feet/dance. Changes in audio output and visuals.

Got some good data of schematics of the shoes and wiring. I can use Serial – midi converter and convert it with arduino serial input. 

Sketch 2 Proposal

Concept
Through an environment we would have the movement of our legs and feet to be the medium in which different emotional states or experiences can be expressed.  By moving our feet or legs these movements will be translated into sound  as an output. We will focus on at least two emotional states:

High intensity(fast pace movement/dance)
Calm(slow, relaxing movements/dance)

In addition the “environment” will change in accordance with the type of movement through the use of visuals i.e video.

Research
The basic psychic conditions of human beings are bound to specific patterns of movement, that can in turn be translated into sound. These basic experiences can be, at the most general level, universally recognized.

Even when listening to sounds or music, a part of the listening experience is a notion of the body being activated through the sounds. In creating the sound there is a physical effort in producing the sound or music.

The relationship between dancing and music is conditioned by causal relationships between movement and music: when music is kinaesthetically transformed, it becomes dance.