Watch Imogen Heap Use Wearable Tech To Make Music — pastemagazine.com

What if electronic music could be played with a flick of the wrist, or the twist of the hand? No buttons or sliders needed. Imogen Heap and her wearable tech company Mi.Mu are working toward this future with new, innovative gloves. It can be difficult to physically see a musician perform at an electronic music show, but these gloves are an attempt to make music-making more visible and more emotional for an audience. The wearer can point a finger, make a fist, move their hand left to right, up or down, and each gesture registers as a different instruction to music software. Because it’s wearable tech, its utility is as infinite as the number of gestures the wearer can come up with.

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