Subject: Hardware to interface Glove to Mac...

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 14:59 CST

Thanks to all of you who responded to my plea for help to access the
glove archive.  I have not been able to access it yet, but Bill
email-ed the Mac version glove code to me (Thanks again Bill!).  He
also mentioned that there might be a comercial product to interface the 
glove with the Mac called the "Goldbrick" or similar.  I would like to 
get in contact with some of you that have already travelled the Mac route
and have a functional setup. 

My objective is to use the glove to explore the relationship between human
hand expressiveness and electronic music.  I have a fairly large and
complete midi/digital/analog setup (Mac II, Xpander, Prophet-T8/VS/5, Dx7II
uWave and D10), which I would like to trigger through different gestures.
My ultimate goal is the music resulting from the direct translation of human
gestures.  Something like "how would I sound when I am moving my hands
while talking, etc....".

I read a while back somebody's posting on a San Francisco performance where
three people performed using power gloves.  I thought this was a great and
quite unique achievement.  My approach would not be that much more different
philosophically than the one taken by John Cage in one of his performances.
On the stage, he had dinner served to 5 people.  He then mic-ed the sounds
coming from the dinner table, ran them through several tape decks and routed
the output to several amps.  The music of incidental actions. As with 
anything else, the quality of the end result would depend on the quality
of the mapping of gesture/sound chosen.

I do not know much yet about the power glove, and I am not quite sure this
would fall outside of its capabilities.  But I think it is worth a try.

William

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