MiMU Gloves: Music Through Movement

[@eden20111]

Thanks to Imogen Heap for creating this technological masterpiece

[@lucface]

Brilliant. Also, I immediately thought of the VR implications.

[@jimmyrade7815]

That’s where they need to go with this tech if they want to be lucrative.

[@jordanmanint6419]

@@jimmyrade7815 vr rock band but like actually playing

[@alienzardsketter.9076]

i Like the MiMugloves , I play many instruments.,,I have for many years wanted a body suite that when danced in played music and produced.Images and light...bringing music and dance and visual arts all in to one .

[@QuinnZoneStudios]

So good! Congratulations on bringing this to market! I've been following this for quit a few years now. I keep thinking I can use these in my puppetry.

[@buen0239]

i'd watch that tbh

[@YouzTube99]

Fascinating! Glad to see someone taking up and extending the concepts Laurie Anderson pioneered almost 40 years ago.

[@animal579]

that last artist was sick and should have a whole commericial to themselves

[@bobo9537]

I need a grant so I can get these, been wanting since Imo Heap first debuted them at a Ted Talk years ago. Why aren’t more folks with money using them???

[@AishawithanEye]

I am! Check out my first project here: ilovetechnology.aishawithaneye.com . My explanation for why others aren't is because they're a brand new instrument that takes time and effort to learn, so, if you're already successful making music, you don't have much incentive to explore these. If you're simply rich, you won't put in the effort required to learn them and you don't have the motivation to make something cool. They're easier than the electric guitar, but harder than the piano, IMO. They are definitely not plug and play to produce something of quality. I'm still figuring them out.

[@bobo9537]

Aisha with an Eye I just came back from watching your video. Very cool! I love the last verse and outro especially. This Covid 19 IS the worlds virus and capitalism is the other plague tearing us down. So in the time since I left my original comment which you responded to - I’ve purchased the wave ring by Genki Instruments because that was more affordable. I’m still figuring out how to use THAT so I’ll definitely have issues with the gloves. You seem to be doing VERY well with them. Have you run into any tech set backs that you didn’t expect to have with those gloves?

[@AishawithanEye]

@@bobo9537 Thanks! I've heard of the ring, but I haven't done too much digging yet. There is a cheaper version of the gloves where you put them together yourself that you might want to consider if you're interested in this new kind of technology. In terms of tech set backs, one of my gloves did break, and it was actually broken when I did this video, but I thought it was just me or how I was doing it or a bug. The crew at Mi.Mu. is super attentive and we have a weekly video chat call where glove-users share their work and the team helps troubleshoot issues and takes feature requests. When I attended my first meeting, after I'd already made my video, they're the ones that pointed out I may have a defect in my glove. They sent a messenger to pick it up from me and ship it to them so they can fix it. I've NEVER had better customer service and the fact that they've got these weekly face-to-face meetings is an unexpected inspiration and support I didn't realize I'd get from purchasing the gloves. So, all things considered, when you're on the cusp of new technology you'll definitely run into issues like I did, but you will also be part of a new community on the frontier of figuring it all out, which is really exciting!

[@mishussy]

Im still mad that mimu gloves dont get recognition as they deserve

[@anateodoro2382]

I feel like the world is becoming more and more like Black Mirror... THIS IS AWESOME

[@TheZiver]

cool stuff I wonder if I could use these while using my VR controllers

[@moiseslozano6906]

imagine if Vtuber got a hold of this

[@CypiXmusic]

This used to be my dream gear

[@inde9044]

Brilliant! These videos turned out so great and I can’t wait to see more artist use the gloves!

[@n.ee.h]

Chagall is beautiful! I want the full version of this song! ❤️

[@alistyles657]

i was introduced to these by Ariana Grande in 2015 and was waiting for them to hit the markettt

[@onesendzeroes4800]

Little pods/leds to put around the space one performs in and where he could stock sound or interact with would be amazing too. I hope i can afford this in the near future, feels designed for me. Thank you for making our hands free.

[@jerzyboy24music]

Whose the people featured in. The demo videos

[@tonal.states]

Hope it grows more popular so the price goes down in the future, that price is something of a lifetime in other countries. 73k in mine i.e. So, basically inaccessible to like 90% of the rest of us. Beautiful idea though, hope I can try them someday.

[@footygoodness]

Was that the female reggie watts at the end there?

[@majinkaos]

Get the old broadway musicals fight music with these.

[@andrewfoster9667]

I can’t wait for mine to come😭 been waiting a decade for this moment eeeeek

[@littlemac844]

Imogen Heap will change music forever

[@timbeneton8068]

Great!!! Can we use this gloves as next level looper! Would be nice to for example loop 10 tracks and with every finger to start/stop each track. So one finger per one track. It it possible with this gloves?

[@madebythebird]

It's happened!! Congrats!

[@zacharyroth1364]

wow the vocals

[@yokoxama1680]

Thank you for such innovations!

[@fernandoramoa7079]

this is incredible. For pop

[@Cuix]

These are so amazing! Really want them to take off~

[@sonderheppo]

Amazing! Now I need it to be 1/10 of the price and it would be a perspective to get them. I mean its all about software and stuff too, but rokoko has very similar gloves for 1000$ so there seems to be competition ahead, when this will hit the consumer space.

[@sorryaboutyourcats]

So good. Will grab a pair of gloves when the price is right. 😸

[@sinephase]

you can make your own

[@voxyp]

Who is the first artist? The track is very cool!

[@Mrnickstr89]

Chagall! Idk the song name though that she’s performing. Highly recommend you check out her music. Start with her stray flux ep

[@sinephase]

FYI this shit is open source except for their software, which is the way Imogen Heap intended them to be.

[@makennawright7260]

Ok I’m here because I’m An arianator but I was wondering where I could get mimu gloves

[@39IA]

I wish I had the money to buy a pair!

[@Elanchana]

I have a mighty need.

[@shahomar4238]

How to you do this And make it

[@Overly_nourished_entity]

Give a pair to Grimes to try out, I’d be curious to see what she comes up with

[@sobhanmoslemi]

That's crazy🤣.... So this is the future...

[@paulavalenzuelamartinez-ca9075]

What is the first song?

[@AishawithanEye]

I've never spent as much money in my life as I just dropped on a pair of these babies.

[@MarinaAndTheDevil]

Was it worth it? 👁

[@AishawithanEye]

@@MarinaAndTheDevil Yes. Definitely. You can check out my first project on my KZbin channel or at this URL: ilovetechnology.aishawithaneye.com I'm creating a tutorial/walkthrough of how I used Ableton and the gloves to make it as well, so if you buy it you'll have an even easier time than I did figuring them out. :)

[@sinephase]

yeah 2500 pounds is fucking nuts!

[@andrewfoster9667]

FELTTT. i’ve been obsessed with them for a decade and i’m finally about to pull the trigger on it 😯😯

[@sinephase]

@@andrewfoster9667 not relatively cheap to make them yourself?

[@CutieRingoJoy]

Why can I see this as the future, like in an parallel universe

[@rwrunning1813]

Why not this one?

[@messedupmayhem]

we're living in the future. the recent tech boom has shot us much farther ahead than we've ever been before

[@daskannweg9994]

Like- what. What??? WHEN DID THE FUTURE GET HERE?!?

[@dRuMPrOdIgY09]

NEED IMMEDIATELY

[@lalilarissa]

Chagall ❤️🇧🇷

[@donnellytrinity1753]

YASSSSSSS

[@Xi_chi]

they need socks ......

[@shahomar4238]

Please

[@IDMENTAL]

Give that fkin glow ill show how to play on it! Damn guys try to listen music of 90s or 00s try to learnt anything about harmony!Peace!

[@aijadawddaw]

This would be good for auditory and sign language not music. Its super gimmicky in its current form.

[@naitranaitra8196]

to call it a musical instrument is abit of a stretch, more like an awkward realtime effect controller.

[@sjsbmksps]

It creates music, does it not?

[@willhubbert1421]

​@@sjsbmksps Saying these gloves are instruments because they create music is like saying my stereo system is an instrument because it creates music. Musical instruments are instruments because every sound they make has a 1 to 1 relationship with an input the musician makes on the instrument. That's not the case for these gloves, at least as many artists thus far have used them. The song Chagall plays at 42 seconds in is a great example: up until that point almost every note (they cheat a LITTLE bit) has a corresponding input, but those chords aren't being determined by how she waves her hands through the air and she's not definitely not preforming those pretty runs of high notes by flapping like a bird.

[@willhubbert1421]

I'm actually a huge fan of this technology, which is why I think it's important to honestly discuss what it can and can't do and whether it's an effect controller or an instrument. I think on balance it's probably a little bit of both, but I think calling any of these performances except for maybe the last "preformed on an instrument" is incredibly misleading.

[@sjsbmksps]

@@willhubbert1421 We live in an era where we redefine everything thanks to technology that does not only involve inventions but any tools we put into overall usage. The level of abstraction we achieved with virtual networks is insane. We don't live in just physical, we never have, but the systems we build in between human relations with each other and with objects and concepts... These things have their weight in their consequences. If someone starts to claim that her hands and gestures, the gloves, the software and the soundsystem make up an instrument, the whole process may be defined so. Everything you know is being challenged day by day.

[@sinephase]

nah you can program it to do what you want

[@galwaytribesman9289]

Complete and utter nonsense

[@sinephase]

what? the price or the gloves? LOL

[@paulavalenzuelamartinez-ca9075]

What is the first song?

[@paulavalenzuelamartinez-ca9075]

What is the first song?