BodyVibez is meant to be worn by each dancer or musician. Given the wide variety of forms that could be utilized, or clothing adaptations of each form, the base component is lightweight and flexible as to not create interference with the dancer's movements, as well as give accurate control. The base component is provided in two formats: Embedded and Portable.
The Embedded format is directly sewn into a given peice of clothing. As the product grows, there will be a variety of clothing options provided, however initially there will only be one variety: A tight fitting, yoga style long sleeved hoodie shirt and sports leggings, constructed of breathable, stretchable, durable fabric. The sensor components are sewn into the fabric using stainless steel conductive thread that is designed to be washable, flexible, and durable. The circuits and wires connecting the sensors are solely created using this thread.
The Portable format is constructed of vinyl straps which hold the sensors and conductive thread for each circuit. These straps are connected together using durable clasps and affixed to the correct area of the dancers suit or skin using latex, velcro straps or tape. This allows near transparent usage in body painting, puppetry or other similar forms of costuming.
The core of the suit is a small motherboard, battery and charging system which is centrally located and weight distributed within the side waist line of the pants, where all the circuits connect to. The motherboard contains all of the embedded software and hardware components for automated wifi connectivity and movement sensing.
When the dancer moves, the movements are sent to the BodyVibez Web Server, analysed, stored in the database, combined with the other dancers movements and streamed live in MP3 format using a RESTful API with extremely low latency. The server also contains the plug and play ability to customize the sound created from each movement for each dancer or dance by the way of Presets. The sounds are provided in the three major protocols for DJ's and DAW's (Digital Audio Workstations): VST Instruments, VST Effects, and WAV format Samples. In this way, any VST Instrument, Effect, Sound, Loop or Sample that is commercially or publicly available or desired can be uploaded and configured into the dance.
The output stream can be separated into a different stream for each sensor on the suit, and each dancer in the dance, or combined into a single stream for the entire dance and mixed further using any commercially or publicly available DAW by a sound technician or DJ giving ultimate flexibility in performing, recording and live interaction.