BodyX
How WILLPOWER is creating it.
Open Source Documentation
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Sound Reactivity Functionality + Synth Activation
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Controlling LED Structure and Sound + Scratching (HipHop)
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"the goal of bodyX is to make the body itself the instrument. using tech as a way to create an intuitive way to play music, visuals and lights rather than learning how to play an instrument that is external to our body's natural movements. I'm doing it to see how it feels when the human temple is the center instrument of audiovisual creation. although I am using tech, the experience is fun and maybe even more intuitive than an acoustic instrument which takes years to learn... Since BodyX is a wearabale glove, it becomes one with our movements, thus the experience is intuitive, which means innate... this is where the magic happens...
I am showing how technology can bring us closer to ourselves in a fun playful way !! "
~WILLPOWER
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Scratching by rotating my wrist (HipHop)
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BodyX Presentation @ M8TRIARCH during Design Week Lisbon 2025
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Controlling LEDs with Movement
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Gallery: Creation Process
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BodyX is an ongoing project. It is an etextile body audiovisual instrument being made for WILLPOWER's immersive performances.
The goal is to make it an intuitive way to create both music and visual animated art in real time with the natural movements of the human body.
WILLPOWER is doing realtime chronological documentation of it right here in the Tech Lab.
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As WILLPOWER develops the tech, he takes you with him on the journey of making.
The images below correspond to different phases of the Research & Development for BodyX.
For this project, he is making eTechStyle sensors, using conductive fabrics and threads, non-conductive fabrics, using electronic components, microcontrollers, Linux OS, the arduino IDE, PlugData (a free and open source Visual Programming Language based on Pure Data) for making the Audio and Visuals that are being generated by the data sent wirelessly from WILLPOWER's body movements.
Click images below to access Sections of the Research & Development phases
