Dance Dance Revolution for creating music – NAGUAL DANCE

Dance Dance Revolution for creating music - NAGUAL DANCE

Nagual Dance turns your body into an orchestra

A uniquely entertaining experience for music to be felt, played and composed in a fun and intuitive way

Nagual Dance – the uniquely entertaining experience for music to be felt, played and composed in a fun and intuitive way is starting its crowdfunding campaign started today.

Nagual Dance is not a game. It is not about following linear paths to a predetermined destination, and does not involve hulking boss battles, pre-made coreographies or random button mashing. It is a singular piece of ground-breaking software that translates body movements into music and a dancing session into orchestral manoeuvres of infinite possibilities.

Using a 3D camera, Nagual Dance captures the bodily movements of one or two dancers and translates every move into music in real time. The movement doesn“t control effects on pre- recorded pieces of music, but allows each dancer to generate an individual song based on his dancing style and performance. It also features an ultimately fun and collaborative mode: creating music together with a friend. For the 2-player mode, the drums and percussion are performed by one dancer, while the other plays bassline and melodies.
Created by Nagual Sounds, this technology opens up the opportunity for everybody to express themselves in a new musical way. „We“re a team of musicians and tech enthusiasts with the vision to empower everyone to be musically creative“, says Mark Moebius, the company CEO. It reverses the natural process of dancing. Instead of just reacting, dancers receive a direct musical feedback of every move, revealing an interesting cycle: you dance and create music, and music makes you dance. From now on, it is no longer necessary to have musical knowledge to be musically creative. Body movement is enough.

During two years of development, the prototypes were showcased on very diverse events, from big shows with professional dancers and hundreds of people to small installations with gamers and party folks in rough sweaty basements. This experience revealed that apart from home entertainment, Nagual Dance can be used as a new way of expression in dance shows, dance and fitness classes, various fields of therapy and interactive installations. Through the journey, Nagual Sounds received the respect from professionals and leaders of the industry, being awarded by Midemlab 2014, Design Prize Berlin-Brandenburg, Rethink Music, TechPitch 4.5, and Society 3 GoToStartups.

Now, they need help to polish and extend the idea, from stunning graphics to a larger soundscape library. With a crowdfunding campaign to be launched today on IndieGogo, Nagual Dance intend to unite gamers, dancers, artists and music enthusiasts to build the ultimate dancing experience. The campaign for Nagual Dance (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nagual-dance-body-moving-music/x/7057720) has some really exciting and unusal perks in it.

Further press information and pictures can be downloaded here: PRESS PACK (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g681x6rddnxqv1w/AABv2xbCck3ddqy4s5LqRD53a/Nagual%20Dance%20Info%20pack.zip)

Nagual Sounds developed a unique technology to translate any kind of data stream into music in realtime. The first product Nagual Dance turns a body into an orchestra.

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Nagual Sounds
Herr Matthias Strobel
Chausseestraße 56
10115 Berlin
030 9190 4463
strobel@nagualsounds.com
http://nagualsounds.com