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RaveNET: connecting people and exploring liminal space through wearable networks in music performance

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posted on 2025-01-16, 09:33 authored by Rachel Freire, Valentin Martinez-Missir, Courtney ReedCourtney Reed, Paul Strohmeier
RaveNET connects people to music, enabling musicians to modulate sound using signals produced by their own bodies or the bodies of others. We present three wearable prototype nodes in an inaugural RaveNET performance: Bones, an anti-corset, uses capacitive sensing to detect stretch as the singer breathes. Tendons, a half-glove, measures galvanic skin response, pulse, and movement of the bass player's hands. Veins, a cap with electrodes for surface electromyography, captures the facial expressions of the drum machine operator. These signals are filtered, normalized, and amplified to control voltage levels to modulate sound. Together, musicians and nodes form RaveNET and engage with shared liminal experiences. In designing these wearables and evaluating them in performance, we reflect on our creative processes, spaces between our different bodies, our presence and control within the network, and how this made us adapt our movements in order to be noticed and heard.

Funding

COSMOS: Computational Shaping and Modeling of Musical Structures

European Research Council

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School

  • Loughborough University, London

Published in

TEI '24: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Source

TEI '24: Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© the owner/author(s)

Publication date

2024-02-11

Copyright date

2024

ISBN

9798400704024

Language

  • en

Location

Cork, Ireland

Event dates

11th February 2024 - 14th February 2024

Depositor

Dr Courtney Reed. Deposit date: 6 June 2024

Article number

89

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