Comments on: Controlling Music with DIY Interactive Gloves

By: Some interesting links « Socialglove’s Weblog

Some interesting links « Socialglove’s Weblog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:08:24 +0000

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By: shaduz

shaduz — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:46:51 +0000

it’s not .com but .net sorry… here’s the right link:
SeNIE

By: shaduz

shaduz — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:44:10 +0000

I absolutely agree with you Peter, it’s not easy to “learn” a new instrument, especially when its features are still under development.
I don’t blame those musicThing readers who are underwhelmed with what they saw, but the live performance shown in the video was conceived, above all, to test the behaviour of inertial sensors, the sensor fusion and filtering algorithms, and the stability of our drivers in a real environment (wich is “slightly” different from a laboratory). Obviously, due to the number of the MIDI controls used during the performance, a secondary MIDI controller (a BCR2000) has been used, since the glove only provides, in this configuration, 5 NoteON/NoteOFF events (triggered by finger flexion) and two CC events (generated from roll and pitch angles).

The full project we’re working on is a more complex full-wireless sensor network (not only music-related), with low-power general purpose, configurable and customizable wireless nodes able to sample sensor data from various sources at the same time (either analog or SPI interfaced digital sensors), so the glove is only one of the possible use of our software/hardware framework, even though, for example, it does not show that multiple nodes can be used simultaneously (body area networks…).
In the next months we’re going to release (for free download) a java-based software environment (SeNIE) with multi-protocol support aimed at fast prototyping and deployment of complex heterogeneous wireless sensor network environments. We’ll keep you updated ;)

Vincenzo Pacella (Shaduz)
Michele Sama (-RAX-)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:58:59 +0000

Jaron’s work is great, too. As I was writing this, I was thinking it’d be nice to do a survey of the various contributions in this category. (And if I get really crazy, other major interactive instruments . . .) I think it’d be utterly insane to try to track everything, but I’d personally love to have a basic list.

On that note, any other candidates? (comment or email me, either is fine . . .)

I notice a lot of people are underwhelmed with the specific performance here (see gripes on Music thing), which is fair . . . it seems to me that you really need a lot of time and practice to get any depth on any instrument — if not, it’s probably not much fun to play, anyway.

Peter

By: aplumb

aplumb — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:21:31 +0000

Note that the use of datagloves for performance goes waaaay back to it’s origins. See Jaron Lanier’s work in the ’80s and ’90s as a starting point: http://www.advanced.org/jaron/pubs.html