The Sound Gloves are a wearable, wireless controller for changing the sound live.
Sofie Playing the Sound Gloves
Hardware
- Sensors
- Push buttons: one on each finger, for triggering sounds and effects.
- IMU sensor: an Adafruit BNO055 IMU on the back of the hand tracks orientation and acceleration in three dimensions, so tilts, rotations and shakes control the sound.
- Microcontroller
- An Adafruit ESP32-S3 Feather reads the buttons and the IMU.
- It sends the data as Open Sound Control (OSC).
What they control
- Effect chains on Bela
- The gloves control effect chains with saturation, delay, reverb, distortion and more, running on our embedded Bela systems.
- Max4Live
- They also control a Max4Live device made for the gloves, with its own effect chain.
- They also control a Max4Live device made for the gloves, with its own effect chain.
Parameter space
Like several of our other instruments, the gloves use the Parameter Space:
- The IMU gives control over several parameters at once from the orientation and movement of the hand.
- Settings are saved to hand positions, which builds a landscape of presets.
- Moving the hand interpolates between the presets, so the sound changes smoothly.
