Audio design company AiAiAi, in an attempt to give their users something new to listen to, have teamed up with DJ Branko and dancer “Twerk Queen Louise” to collab on the “Real Booty Music Project”. Made for the Booty, by the Booty.
The idea was born in the simple request to turn a dancer’s booty shake in to music. Enter accelerometers attached to the dancer’s backside, the movements translate to unique velocities and triggers and the dancer becomes the DJ.
“The booty drum is a device that records movement through accelerometers attached to the dancer’s booty.” technology partners OWOW, say. “These movements translate into a lot of unique velocities and directions of movement. The movements, which are being mapped into unique midi values through Arduino hardware and processing software, can in this way be used to trigger samples and create sounds in Ableton. As every single movement sends out a unique set of values, the dancer is able to play around with sounds.”
Check the video below for some twerking in the name of tech.
And listen to the track below
