Make Music With Your Body Wearing the MIDI Controller Jacket When a great song comes on at the club, it often seems as though you can feel the music straight through your body. But what if an artist could use their body to create that track in the first place. Machina, a wearable technology brand geared towards geeks, designers and artists, have created at jacket that connects to a MIDI controller to do just that. The MIDI controller jacket has six sensors that use your body to create commands interpreted by the computer. The left sleeve includes an altimeter, a sensor that measures the distance between your body and the ground and a magnetometer, which is like a compass. The jacket is also equipped with a gyroscope and an accelerometer which are used to detect the motions and the speed of these motions to be used as inputs. The jacket comes with preset and initial configurations but are all highly configurable by the user. The designers at Machina have created the jacket in such a way that the sensors remain visible so that the jacket looks like a jacket rather than a device. The Creators Project featured Machina’s MIDI Controller jacket in a five-minute documentary. In it, one artist explained, “As a dancer, you always wonder what sound do your moves create?” Not only does Machina’s jacket answer that, but it allows you to turn your motions into music. It offers every inch you budge a bit more texture, and a lot more sensory input”. https://youtube/watch?v=BPwlpauUKMk
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:28:52 +0000
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