Wearable Speakers:

To design and manufacture a set of non-dynamic speakers to be worn by the members of Ensemble Pamplemousse in performance context.  This allows the electronic and acoustic sounds to merge at the source.  Localizing sound in this fashion creates a wholly integrated listening experience for the audience member, and allows the performer maximum listenability. 

Speaker Dresses and wide-legged pants: carbon nanotube thin film speakers embedded (or sewn) into fabric to create an integrated electroacoustic sound.
One-page description

Some potential speaker choices:

High-powered miniature speakers (not loud enough)

Alternative solution: Plasma-ion speaker technology
ITP student who previously worked with these: Min Lee's blog
Major drawback:  The EQ changes as they bend.

Nanotube technology

Primary article on CNT film speaker technology

Further research- information on various methods of fabricating films from carbon nanotubes:
Transparent, Conductive Carbon Nanotube Films
Strong, Transparent, Multifunctional, Carbon Nanotube Sheets
CNT-polymers

Research on sound mapping:
microphone array article (princeton)
Sound modeling for strings

buckyballs: inspiration for design

Design: Dresses to aspire after-