A team from France has developped this plastic skirt with speakers, contact microphones etc. Click on the picture and listen to the skirt (MP3-excerpt).
Benoît Maubrey (F) and his Berlin-based AUDIO GRUPPE (email: maubrey@berlin.snafu.de) have built electro-acoustic cloths equipped with loudspeakers, amplifiers, and 257 K samplers that enable them to interact with their environment by recording live sounds, voices, or instruments in their proximity, and amplifying them as a mobile and multi-acoustic performance. Additionnally they also wear radio receivers, contact microphones, light sensors and electronic looping devices in order to produce, mix, and multiply their own sounds and compose these as an environmental concert. The performers also use rechargeable batteries and/or solar cells which ensure them complete mobility both indoors and outdoors.
AUDIO BALLERINAS was a project created for Les Arts au Soleil (L'Aeronef Festival, Lille, France). The tutus have solar cells to power the IC's. 257 K samplers were used to record live sounds around them. Electronic looping devices, light sensors, radio wave receivers are also included on the plexiglass surfaces of the tutus: in this way, the electro-acoustic performers were able to create an entire spectrum of sounds through their clothing.
AUDIO GEISHAS were created for the opening of NTT- InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. 4 Japanese performance artists were equipped with AUDIO KIMONOS complete with guitar amplifiers, digital memories, solar powered radio receivers, and microphones. Performances of the AUDIO GEISHAS and AUDIO BALLERINAS were held in different public places in Tokyo.
Click on the geisha and listen to the audio kimono.
All information and other links about the audio clothes project are available in: www.i-a-s.de/IAS/Maubrey/Maubrey.html.
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