drawer, performer, vocal worker, costume designer, art pedagog
ReSense Festival
[movement, performance, technology, art] at Spektrum
28-07-2016
"Hoodie Escape"
Construction and design of the hoodies by Mika Satomi
Composition and programming by Clemens Pichler aka Fump
Performers: Özgür Erkök Moroder, Clemens Pichler
"Hoodies" is a DIY Wearable Interface. Two performers standing back to back wearing originally ordinary hoodies, which were modified by Mika Satomi to standalone audio-controllers. At the head and at the elbows the two hoodies are connected by about one and a half meters long knitted stretch sensors. Additional it is including a 5-Channel-Zipper-Switcher, eight fabric buttons and fabric pressure sensors for controlling and generating the sound in realtime. The software and the protocol is fully programmed in PureData. For the connection are used Arduinos and Xbee.
The first appearance of the Project was in 2010. The Performance was called "Cassette DJ Hoodie Battle" (performed @ STWST Linz, Austria. as part of the event of "Labor für Elektroakustische Musik Neue Medien Linz"). 2014 the Project was invited to the reopening of the Textile Museum Borås/Schweden as being part of the "Textile Sound" Festival. Therefor the ”Hoodies“ were reinvented and became standalone audio-controllers, for generating sound in realtime.