The fabric hip synth belt is embedded with a Lilypad Arduino, a 3-axis accelerometer, a lithium polymer battery, and an xbee. The accelerometer is nestled on the left hip and its x-y-z dimension data points are sent from the xbee in the belt to an xbee attached to a laptop. The serial data from the Arduino is read into a Max for Live device which then uses each of the data points as the partial to an additive synth. We’re using Videosync with Live for video, and for that we send the accelerometer data mapped to a smaller range via OSC for the purpose of controlling the percentage of red, blue, or green video input that is blended into the main video which shows Mary dancing.
