'Bodycoder': A Sensor Suit and Vocal Performance Mechanism for Real-time Performance

The aim of the project was to create a new performance mechanism using the movements and vocalisations of a performer to affect and control all aspects of the audio and video compositional material, in effect to become a new musical instrument. The brief was to design an integrated system which would interface with the kinetic qualities of dance and dynamics of vocal expression. The requirement was to free the dancer/performer of any physical attachment to the computer systems and to free the performer within the performance space from the constraints of having to interact with fixed sensor elements.