Dancing and music belong inseparably together and are an important part of all human cultures. With the MotionComposer(www.motioncomposer.de), you can experience this connection on a whole new level. The device recognizes movements and converts them into music. It creates the unique experience of producing sounds with your own body and expressing yourself creatively.
The Weimar-based company has set itself the goal of providing people with low-threshold access to music and movement, regardless of their abilities, thereby promoting self-determined participation and inclusion. The MotionComposer has therefore been specially developed to enable people with severe physical or mental illnesses to express themselves musically and emotionally. However, it is also used for purely artistic purposes, e.g. dance performances, concerts or stage shows.
At the University of Jena, together with the developers, we are researching how differently people experience this fascinating technology and how they can use it for themselves. We want to better understand how individually and diversely we dance, which sounds we produce and what we feel when we do so. We therefore invite you to join us on this little adventure and step onto our dancefloor. Anyone who would like to is welcome to answer a few questions and talk to us. This will give us important insights for our research, which will help us to further improve the MotionComposer and make it accessible to even more people.
