Pacer Suite

I heard some time ago that in the future, people will embrace nudity and will forget anything about clothes, presumably getting closer to God, exactly as they were in the Garden of Eden. I don’t know about that, but I think clothes, although they will surely get skimpier, they will somehow integrate all sorts of electronic devices to facilitate communications and computer interactions. Music too can be a form of communication and that’s what some guy thought when he designed the Pacer Suite.

Covering your entire body (save your head), the Pacer Suite is designed to measure electrical impulses of your muscles and turns them into music or sound effects. The concept is inspired motion capture suits that have lately become commonplace in high-end graphics and animation production. Pacer either makes self-contained music with onboard amplifiers and speakers, or communicates wirelessly via infrared with a control console, which would assign and amplify sounds according to the artistic choices of the wearer.

 

Imagine some breakdancers wearing this outfit. Or some oriental bellydancer (too bad we don’t get to see those fleshy parts). How would a karate master dressed up in this suite sound like? This kind of dancewear could create an entirely new form of hybrid art.

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