Early into 2020 I was invited to attend an event from SWCTN where I met movement artist Silvia Carderelli-Gronau. As a result and outcome of the event, Silvia and I found that we have a shared interest in using technology that does not inhibit but non-invasively supports humans to perform, connect and sense movement.
Funded by The Arts Council England in 2021, the project covers the next iteration of the collaboration between me and Silvia. For this iteration the focus was on getting a standalone device which fully autonomously generates the sound of people moving around it and still allows participants to explore shared movement and interaction.
I started writing about a shared Art/Dance - Robotics/HCI project as a short exploratory activity, but the project has matured from a fun short project into a more serious project.
The idea for a non-tech-centric approach to connect people using sound was born at a SWCTN event where I met movement artist Silvia Carderelli-Gronau. After a two-day brainstorming session, we came up with the idea of using a sound-based approach and built two early devices through small funding from Kaleider.