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Musical Movement Therapy with the Drancing accelerometer music system

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Videos of Hadyn exploring the Drancing accelerometer music system

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These are simple digicam video recordings of Hadyn Muir exploring musical movement therapy aspects of the Drancing accelerometer music system.

Please note the sound recording was made using inbuilt laptop microphones recording loudspeaker s in a room, which mics tend to capture only the higher frequency sounds.

Mode:
Variable Frequency Oscillators+
Amplitude Modulation+
Triggered Drum Samples 		Mode:
low range Variable Frequency Oscillators+
Triggered Drum Samples

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The Drancing accelerometer music system - developed by Dr Darren Kelly since 1996 - was one of the world's first true "air music instruments". Drancing synthesises music and visuals in real-time from human body movement, dance, and postures.

Hadyn Muir of time2exercise has worked with Drancing since 2002, and he has been instrumental in developing aspects of the system related to musical movement therapy, including exploration of the powerful "homing to silence and darkness" calibration principle of Drancing. Hadyn has worked both with the original Drancing accelerometer sensor suit - which used 5 triaxial accelerometers worn in a "vitruvian man" body star pattern - and more recently with a version of Drancing for the Nintendo Wii remote (a.k.a. Wiimote) used as wireless 3D accelerometers.

Triaxial (3D) accelerometer sensors are not only effective at measuring dynamic acceleration, they can also be used to capture orientation and especially the relationship to gravity, which reinforces a sense of the vertical and horizontal symmetry, which can be explored in Drancing musically using yoga postures ! The Drancing accelerometer music synthesis system provides powerful aural, visual, and postural biofeedback.

Visit also
The Drancing accelerometer music project home