Harmonic Dance

Harmonic Dance is a type of musical instrument. A real Dancer wears a Harmonic Dance Corset, which uses incredibly sensitive microphones to pick up the neural impulses in their spine and translate them into sound waves; this allows a dancer to provide both music and movement at the same time, "a joy for all the senses" as described in the press release for the instrument originally branded as the Synaesthetiphone.

However, as generic replicas of the instrument became more popular, several companies (realising how difficult it was to tune such a device so that any given dance produced music in a compatible style) released their own cheaper and simpler variants. These often took the form of a suit which measured the flexing of knee and elbow joints, which could be used to produce a simple beat, or even a Dancer's Mat, a conventional keyboard with its keys rearranged into a spiral pattern and made of soft foam so that a dancer can stand on them.

As well as the instrument, Harmonic Dance can mean the style of dance necessary to play good music; some critics even extend the term to mean the visual aesthetic of any musician playing an instrument.