echome: a wearable technology for sound and movement interaction [please note echome is all low fonts]

Value

ESRC Healthy Ageing Award - £65K; MBIF - 10K plus 5K which was made available this summer; Participatory Research Fund (Research England) - £20K

Partners and collaborators

Age UK, Leeds Pyramid Arts, Reimagine Ageing Network, Leeds Beckett

Description

What is echome?

  • a digital wearable interface that makes possible the production of sound through movement in an intuitive and accessible way.
  • pedagogy that guides participants through different ways of working with sound and movement interaction.
  • a creative medium that facilitates self-expression as part of an embodied kinesonic experience.
  • a form of practice that maps the terrain of sound and movement interaction both in terms of the phenomenal experience of the user as well as the contexts and value systems within which this experience is situated.

The system was developed by Maria Kapsali, Kingsley Ash and Nikos Stavropoulos in collaboration with dance artists Sophie Alder and Sandrine Monin, industry professionals and diverse groups of end-users. Here is a short film that documents the first phase of development.

The project was supported by the Cultural Institute Catalyst Award (2019-2021), the Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship (2020-2021) and an ESRC Healthy Ageing Catalyst Award (2022-2023).

Impact

https://echome.leeds.ac.uk/application/

https://echome.leeds.ac.uk/232-2/ 

Publications and outputs

Forthcoming

Project website

https://echome.leeds.ac.uk/; https://www.linkedin.com/feed/