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Eclipse: A Wearable Instrument for Performance Based Storytelling

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Bridging People and Sound (CMMR 2016)

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Eclipse is a dance performance telling the Altai Shaman story of a solar eclipse. Through movement of a dancer, a unique soundscape is created, to which the dancer moves. This feedback mechanism tries to achieve a multisensory interaction where the sounds created by movements are supplementary to the visual perception of the movements.

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Acknowledgements

This project was executed as my thesis submitted to the faculty of Parsons The New School for Design, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology. Special thanks to Anezka Cecile Sebek, Barbara B. Morris, Katherine Moriwaki, Andrew Zornoza, Melissa Grey, Betty Quinn, Kiki Sabater, Qiu Yi Wu, Juno Liu, Kieun Kim, Daniel Mastretta Jimenez, Riley Kalbus, Marc Fiaux, Anna Meriano and Ryan Tunnell.

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  1. Ezgi Ucar Design, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY, 10011, USA

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  1. Laboratoire PRISM, CNRS-AMU, Marseille, France

    Mitsuko Aramaki

  2. Laboratoire PRISM, CNRS-AMU, Marseille, France

    Richard Kronland-Martinet

  3. Laboratoire PRISM, CNRS-AMU, Marseille, France

    Sølvi Ystad

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The video of the Eclipse performance viewed from above is available at https://vimeo.com/133083095.

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Ucar, E. (2017). Eclipse: A Wearable Instrument for Performance Based Storytelling. In: Aramaki, M., Kronland-Martinet, R., Ystad, S. (eds) Bridging People and Sound. CMMR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10525. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67738-5_7

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