Mi.Mu gloves for Music beats!

Grammy-winning British artist Imogen Heap says she's always been a bit frustrated by not being able to navigate computers and mixing boards with the same fluidity other musicians can play more traditional instruments. To solve this, she's "joined forces with the nerd underworld, creating musical gloves using new sensor technology allowing me to compose and perform music with computers in an intuitive way."


The first report on the gloves is back in 2011 when Heap debuted them at a TED conference. Now, the artist and her team of engineers and scientists are seeking funding for their "Mi.Mu gloves" through a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise £200,000 (about $330,000 USD) to bring the technology to the masses.

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!

Ototo - Music form everything

Ototo is an all-in-one musical invention kit which allows you to make an instrument any way you want. Ototo is now available on Kickstarter. Created by Yuri Suzuki and Mark McKeague experts in product design, interaction design, music and technology.

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