Sensory Response Systems

Sensory Response Systems is an exploration into audiovisual performance using an array of sensors and diy electronics responsive to physical movements in order to control the audiovisual output in programs such as Pure Data (Pd), SuperCollider, Processing, etc. It also looks at reshaping and replicating the body through the use of fabric, textiles, technology and light. This work uses DIY hardware to build a new interface for live computer music performance, aiming to turn the performers body and clothes into an instrument allowing them to embody new technologies and computational devices.
The performance alters the perspective of the performer and performance space through noise, strobe lighting and computational technologies. Flickering shadows of the performers jerking movements, cables, and moving wires attached to the body are cast onto the walls of the performance space as the performers’ movements’ control screaming and shrieking hacked electronics and computer programmes, spewing out their internal circuitry.
As well as the performance aspect of this project, the sensor costume is also a stand alone installation. The installation acts as a self regulating feedback system. The main 'body' of the costume is constructed from muscle (shape memory alloy) wire which moves and pulsates in its abstracted bodily form in direct response to sounds being generated by the movement of the sensors, which are placed on the muscle wire.