MusicGlove: A Wearable Musical Controller for Massive Media Library

Kouki Hayafuchi, and Kenji Suzuki

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This research aims to develop a wearable musical interface which enables to control audio and video signals by using hand gestures and human body motions. We have been developing an audio-visual manipulation system that realizes tracks control, time-based operations and searching for tracks from massive music library. It aims to build an emotional and affecting musical interaction, and will provide a better method of music listening to people. A sophisticated glove-like device with an acceleration sensor and several strain sensors has been developed. A realtime signal processing and musical control are executed as a result of gesture recognition. We also developed a stand-alone device that performs as a musical controller and player at the same time. In this paper, we describe the development of a compact and sophisticated sensor device, and demonstrate its performance of audio and video signals control.

Citation

Kouki Hayafuchi, and Kenji Suzuki. 2008. MusicGlove: A Wearable Musical Controller for Massive Media Library. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1179561

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Hayafuchi2008,
 abstract = {This research aims to develop a wearable musical interface which enables to control audio and video signals by using hand gestures and human body motions. We have been developing an audio-visual manipulation system that realizes tracks control, time-based operations and searching for tracks from massive music library. It aims to build an emotional and affecting musical interaction, and will provide a better method of music listening to people. A sophisticated glove-like device with an acceleration sensor and several strain sensors has been developed. A realtime signal processing and musical control are executed as a result of gesture recognition. We also developed a stand-alone device that performs as a musical controller and player at the same time. In this paper, we describe the development of a compact and sophisticated sensor device, and demonstrate its performance of audio and video signals control.},
 address = {Genoa, Italy},
 author = {Hayafuchi, Kouki and Suzuki, Kenji},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1179561},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Embodied Sound Media, Music Controller, Gestures, Body Motion, Musical Interface },
 pages = {241--244},
 title = {MusicGlove: A Wearable Musical Controller for Massive Media Library},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2008/nime2008_241.pdf},
 year = {2008}
}