Ambi Dance

Ambi Dance allows all visitors to gain a unique perspective on dance. Instead of watching a performance from the outside, Ambi Dance gives you the opportunity to experience the performance from the dancer’s perspective. Through binaural audio and a GoPro mounted on the dancer’s head, you can immerse yourself in the performance space and forge a much closer connection with the art on display.

Ambi Dance means that dancers need to focus less on how they appear to others, giving them the opportunity to express their feelings through dance exactly as they wish.
Ambi Dance combines dance and technique to create an even more intense and immersive form of art

How does it work?
The GyrOSC app sends the motion data via OSC to the Max MSP programme. This data is then passed on to an audio workstation, where it is written as automation.

This automation data can then be used retrospectively to encode the soundtrack for Ambisonics.
This recreates the dancer’s head position, so that the performance is always seen and heard from her perspective.

In addition, you can adjust the performance after the dance has finished. Using the MIRA module in Max, you can turn any mobile phone on the same network into a controller.

This allows us to play back the performance at normal, half and double speed. For audio, one of the three beats is played, and the melody is triggered.

Ambi Dance allows you to experience the ultimate perspective at a time when it is difficult, if not impossible, to watch live performances. Below, you can still watch the performance video itself.

We would like to extend our warmest thanks to our dancer Vanessa Shield, our professor Thorsten Greiner, our tutors Benjamin Weber and Julius Busch, and the Kreativ Fabrik in Wiesbaden.