desire

i’m almost too exhausted to communicate my desires – and so what comes out now are the very basics…

so for starters, i desire:

an interface that doesn’t attach my fingers to a keyboard and lock the rest of my body into some frozen form. not just an interface for “performing sound” but an interface for being and working in the world, that takes into account my love for (and of) technology and doesn’t just require me to step away from the computer and do some stretching and yoga classes.  i’m looking for a way of real integration between physicality and technology on a day to day level. one that doesn’t have me tangled up in cords, hunting out power points in strange locations in strange buildings all around the world or have me constantly hunched over a laptop in a bed somewhere. i want tools that are as easy to work with as when i’m lying in a bed reading a book or scribbling a few notes on a scrap of paper. this is what i want.

* i also desire collaboration with the other geeky techs in the room  – that’d be you three boys (george, garth, jonathan) – who have experience with body sensing systems. part of this is that i want to work on phase 2 of the backpack and while the basic proximity sensing that i’m using at the moment seems to give a real and quite in-depth experience to the users/audience – i’ve always had the intent to have “people sensing” and “anxiety sensing” as part of the system. these were my initial ideas and of course budget/time has prevented this part from happening so far…