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Final results of project musikgewand.t by Gaia Reiner. Semester project in the course "the tone of things" supervised by Mika Satomi, Carola Zwick, Olaf Thiele.
musikgewand.t is a wearable textile interface for performative music making.
Electronic musicians often need more freedom of movement than their technical set-up allows. They feel torn between performing and mixing the music they composed. But what if their stage apparel enabled the same functionality as a mixer? Could a wearable interface bring the electronic musician back out from behind their laptop and place them on center stage, moving to the music they composed?
Designed to be worn, this knitted textile interface combines analog interaction and electronic sound processing. Instead of buttons, the interface design makes clever use of familiar textile interactions. Separate textile elements can be moved within the composite structure to activate the sensors. The gestures tap into tacit knowledge we hold about how to intuitively operate a garment - for example, a drawstring is pulled to gather the fabric, or a pocket flap is lifted to activate a sensor. The interface can be integrated into a garment. A knitted structure, synonymous with stretch and flexibility, was chosen to demonstrate how comfortable and easy to wear this mixing interface could be.
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By Final results of project musikgewand.t by Gaia Reiner. Semester project in the course "the tone of things" supervised by Mika Satomi, Carola Zwick, Olaf Thiele.
musikgewand.t is a wearable textile interface for performative music making.
Electronic musicians often need more freedom of movement than their technical set-up allows. They feel torn between performing and mixing the music they composed. But what if their stage apparel enabled the same functionality as a mixer? Could a wearable interface bring the electronic musician back out from behind their laptop and place them on center stage, moving to the music they composed?
Designed to be worn, this knitted textile interface combines analog interaction and electronic sound processing. Instead of buttons, the interface design makes clever use of familiar textile interactions. Separate textile elements can be moved within the composite structure to activate the sensors. The gestures tap into tacit knowledge we hold about how to intuitively operate a garment - for example, a drawstring is pulled to gather the fabric, or a pocket flap is lifted to activate a sensor. The interface can be integrated into a garment. A knitted structure, synonymous with stretch and flexibility, was chosen to demonstrate how comfortable and easy to wear this mixing interface could be.