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Eclipse: a wearable instrument for performance based storytelling

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This paper provides a presentation of the ideation, design, and implementation processes of a wearable musical instrument for performance based storytelling. This experimental project seeks ways to integrate technology into interactive dance performance and music creation with subtlety and practicality.

Eclipse is a dance performance telling the Altai Shaman story of a solar eclipse. Through movement of a dancer, a unique soundscape is created, to which the dancer moves. This feedback mechanism tries to achieve a multisensory interaction where the sounds created by movements are supplementary to the visual perception of the movements.

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              ICC '17: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet of things, Data and Cloud Computing
              March 2017
              1349 pages
              ISBN:9781450347747
              DOI:10.1145/3018896

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