A wireless glove to perform music in real time

  • Authors:

  • Giovanni Costantini;Massimiliano Todisco;Giovanni Saggio

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy and Institute of Acoustics "O. M. Corbino", Rome, Italy;Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy;Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ELECTRO'10 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS international conference on Applied electromagnetics, wireless and optical communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a "wireless glove" that we propose as a new musical instrument; it is able to control a real time granular sound synthesis process. The glove was adopted to detect intrinsic and extrinsic hand movements, thanks to sensors on back-hands, palm and fingers. Sensors realized with piezoresistive materials change their electrical resistivity when deformed. The piezoresistive coefficient is defined by the ratio of the change of the relative resistivity caused by the change of the relative length of resistor. In addiction to the piezoresistive sensors we also use a kinematic transducer that measure hand motion acceleration, it is composed by three mono-axial accelerometers. Finally, the musical synthesis process was realized by means of a sound synthesizer based on granular additive synthesis algorithm.