Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́ by Lihsing Wang and Yulin Tsai

Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́ by Lihsing Wang and Yulin Tsai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Ngwá Dijitalụ na Eletronikị Competition Category.

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Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́

by Lihsing Wang and Yulin Tsai

Client: Lihsing Wang

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Ngwá Eletronikị Category

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The Design

About Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́

Ederede Akwụkwọ: Body Voice bụ ngwa egwu e yikwasịrị n'ahụ́ nke na-enye ndị na-agba egwu ohere ịmepụta egwu site n'ọkụ ha na-agba egwu. Ngwakọta a gụnyere klịpụ ndị na-adịghị eji waya arụ ọrụ, ngwa mkpanaka na ngwa ada ụda Bluetooth. Klịpụ ọ bụla nwere gyroscope na ihe mmetụta ngwa ngwa (acceleration sensor), enwere ike ijikwa ya n'ebe ọ bụla dị n'ahụ́, ọkachasị n'aka na ụkwụ. A na-eziga data mmegharị ahụ́ na ekwentị mkpanaka site na Bluetooth, ngwa ahụ na-agbanwekwa mmegharị ahụ́ ka ọ bụrụ ụda. A na-akpọpụta ụda ahụ site na ngwa ada ụda Bluetooth. A na-eji ike eletriki na-adịghị eji waya na-echarger klịpụ ndị a. Body Voice na-agbanwe mmekọrịta ndị a na-ahụkarị n'etiti egwu na ịgba egwu.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́ meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́ ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. Body Voice Ọrụ Bụ́ Isi: Ngwa Egwu E Yikwasịrị n'Ahụ́ na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Body Voice is driven by technology, a wearable instrument that allows dancers to create music through their dance moves. Body voice is a set of designs, including the Clips, an App, and a Bluetooth speaker. The wireless Bluetooth clips are motion sensors that clip anywhere on dancer's bodies to collect their movements digitally and send them to the mobile phone. The user modifies it on an App where converts movements into music and plays it on the Bluetooth speaker.
Dimensions & Packaging: A single clip device, size:30*24*14.6mm. The speaker, size:140*125*180.4mm. The wireless charging, size:85*62*65.3mm. The Unity engine, Bluetooth 3.0.
Tags: Wireless, sound, movement, innovation, digital device, dance, instrument.
Production Technology: The wireless clips use a gyro-sensor and acceleration sensor to detect dance moves then transmit them to a mobile phone via Bluetooth 3.0 chip. The clips are charged wirelessly. And the App is driven by Unity software for converting movements to sounds. The speaker connects to a mobile phone by Bluetooth.
Design Challenge: In the most beginning, I considered hands as the way to express body emotion. Thus, I decided to design a product that can detect hand gestures and movements. Gloves, I used several sensors inserted in them for capturing the movements of hands and send the electronic signal to a computer for analyzing the gestures guided by the specific sound effect. However, after testing this prototype on dancers and receiving feedback from them, I decided to use a different way to capture the dance move; finally, using a clip functions as a motion detector gained great feedback from the users.
Research: If dancing is no longer a movement to follow music but to create music? Music and dance, in the general point of view, usually follow the rhythm of the music. Our brain processes the signal of music and reacts through the body. However, is it possible to reverse this process? In other words, our dance movements or gestures can create sounds and music? The Body Voice is a set of digital devices for dancers to create music through their dancing. Driven by technology, a wearable instrument reveals new possibilities in the art of dance.
Inspiration: Although music and dance are two art forms, dance often follows the rhythm of the music. The dancer’s creation is based on others, musicians, and work. It is contributed to a second creation. What if dance is no longer a movement that follows the music but creates music? The body voice subverts the conventional relationship between music and dance, redefines the possibility of free creations by analyzing dance’s movement, and converts it into music.
Project Duration: The project began in Taiwan in November 2017 and was completed Taiwan in June 2018.
Operation Flow: Open the Body Voice’s App for pairing your phone with the Clips. You can apply the Clips anywhere on your body, usually arms and legs, to receive your movements and transmit them to analysis on an App where you can define a dance move correspond to sound, customize your actions and music tracks. Choose the solo mode or ensemble mode to play it yourself or with friends. The solo runs on a smartphone, but the ensemble needs to connect each user’s phone to a computer and run on Unity.
Team Members: Lihsing Wang
Yulin Tsai
Image Credits: Image #1：Designer Lihsing Wang, Body Voice, 2018.
Image #2：Designer Lihsing Wang, Body Voice, 2018.
Image #3：Designer Lihsing Wang, Body Voice, 2018.
Image #4：Designer Lihsing Wang, Body Voice, 2018.
Image #5：Designer Lihsing Wang, Body Voice, 2018