Digit-al Music...intuitive gloves to make music

Now that's digit-al music: 'Intuitive' gloves allow wearer to make noises using hand gestures

Engineering students at Cornell University, New York, made the gloves that use a magnetic tracking system and can create virtually any sound

The Aura enables wearers to make music using expressive and intuitive hand gestures so that music lessons are not required.Raising and lowering gloved hands controls pitch and spreading them apart increases volume. 

By closing the fingers, the Aura wearer activates flex sensors and muffles the sound, while twisting the hands adds distortion that makes the noises produced sound extra futuristic. 

Through an interface created by Mr Ndubuisi, hand positions are converted to signals in the universal Midi language for electronic instruments and fed to a synthesiser.

The future is now!