M. Miller's List: Disability - Accessibility Issues, DME

• Essentially the idea was that the Gloves would take on the personality of a musical companion, not trying to do take the place of what a keyboard or computer is good for but finding and celebrating those things that the gloves do better : expressive and immediate control of sounds recording and played through gesture, "Like painting music rather than typing it into a spreadsheet."
• The harness holds all the wireless audio and bluetooth gear to 'speak' to Imogen's setup off stage. The wires from her gloves are threaded through some 'crin' tubing and 'armbands' to stop them from dangling and up into the harness. The bolero adding to the aesthetic, combined with Imogen wanting to visualise the level of her voice in LED lights for extra data feedback for the audience, a stunning bolero was put together by Rachel and Hannah, where the circuit board in sewn in conductive threads on the exterior of the collar.

  • Features & Making of the Gloves
• the fluidity and shifting through the music comes from hours and hours of programming what the gloves get up to musically, via the user interfac
• Ableton

  • Software Interface
• Music performance software doesn't come off the shelf made for a pair of gloves
• some long arduous route with many plug-ins and mappings for it to flow well on stage.

  • Challenges - Technical / Expertise / Time
• Things you'd expect to be simple like 'muting' a sound for instance can be surprisingly clunky to solve yet previously tricky manoeuvres like manipulating the timbre, tuning, length of note, velocity, panning, filtering and generally moulding the sound in hand (literally) come second nature when using the gloves.
• For the first time, she's literally dancing around the room. Exercising and making music, imagine that! Usually all of this involved moving a mouse around a computer screen or the 'old way' of using faders, switches and knobs.
• being able to literally shape sound with her hands, like play-doh; a direct connect, from musical inspiration to creation; to move freely (wirelessly) singing, recording, looping, effecting, amplifying and playing instruments, making music with gestures in the studio and on stage

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