Mi.Mu

Imogen Heap is wearing gloves.  An English singer-songwriter who has long used electronic and ambient sound in her fascinating body of work, Heap recently launched a Kickstarter project to develop and promote her latest innovation, a set of very special electronic gloves.  Created with the help of a team of engineers and software magicians, the wearer can  produce and control music with the Mi.Mu data gloves in what is said to be a more natural way than existing glove and gesture technology has afforded.  Here is a sample:



Visit Heap's Kickstarter page for more video demonstrations and a lot more details.

P.S. Compare how Heap's gloves seem to free her from the machinations that more "traditional" electronic music controls require, such as that performed by her once-keyboard player Jon Hopkins as seen in this earlier post.