Hoodie Escape 
Construction and design of the hoodies by Mika Satomi
Composition and programming by Clemens Pichler aka Fump
Performers: Özgür Erkök Moroder, Clemens Pichler

"Hoodies" is a DIY Wearable Interface. Two performers standing back to back wearing originally ordinary hoodies, which were modified by Mika Satomi to standalone audio-controllers. At the head and at the elbows the two hoodies are connected by about one and a half meters long knitted stretch sensors. Additional it is including a 5-Channel-Zipper-Switcher, eight fabric buttons and fabric pressure sensors for controlling and generating the sound in realtime. The software and the protocol is fully programmed in PureData. For the connection are used Arduinos and Xbee.

The first appearance of the Project was in 2010. The Performance was called "Cassette DJ Hoodie Battle" (performed @ STWST Linz, Austria. as part of the event of "Labor für Elektroakustische Musik Neue Medien Linz"). 2014 the Project was invited to the reopening of the Textile Museum Borås/Schweden as being part of the "Textile Sound" Festival. Therefor the ”Hoodies“ were reinvented and became standalone audio-controllers, for generating sound in realtime.

Last-minute Failure is a work about how can we use interactive technology to control, change or trigger sounds based on the sense of touch of two persons. Our concept is based on the philosophical ideas of Maurice Melreau-Ponty and investigate how our perception changes, depending on how another person approaches or touch us. Last-minute failure is how Merleau-Ponty defines the blurry moment when we realized that being touched involves also touching something: an endlessly reversible perception. For this work we will use a technology that detects the touch between two persons.

Marcello Lussana is a composer, a software engineer and free thinker specialized in interactive systems. Focal point of his work is the interaction between sound and human movement. He is director of the project Motioncomposer and he is based in Berlin where is actively involved in the improvised scene.

Rebekka E. Böhme is a dancer and choreographer she works with various artists and companies (e.g. Volksbühne, Derida Dance Company) in the scope of dance, (site- specific / interactive) performance, film, installing, improvisation theatre and more. Rebekka also created own dance pieces and video works which have been shown in different venues. Projects, performances and festivals brought her to Turkey, Austria, Israel, Greece, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia.  

Clara Gracia is an actress and a mover from Spain based in Berlin.she works as a freelancer mixing dance,theater and performance.she is also member of the collective Theater am tisch and the company Grotest maru.in 2012 founded with Marina Rodriguez Kazibaze theater focusing their work mostly in physical theater.