1994

LEFT: A friend posing for the project-submission to the STEIM. The photo shows an "ideal" setup: congas, gloves and performer.

RIGHT: My first idea was to use the gloves to MIDI record percussion performances on 2 congas. The piezos would identify each drum, and the sensors in the gloves, the rhythm, the intensity and the parts of the hand involved. Project submission drawing.

Project submission photos for a STEIM's residency.

1997-2000

After the first prototype, new ideas came. I wanted to input MIDI-aftertouch signals with the gloves to trigger notes with this MIDI piano (constructed with the help of  Trimpin and Miguel Zenker). Even if the piano worked OK, I was never inspired  to make music with it. I destroyed the instrument before moving to Germany.

Photo by Lázaro Sandoval, at my mother's living room in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

1997-2005

First Sensor-Lab version. This bulky MIDI IN-OUT equipment never worked properly with Spider and Lick machine.

2004

Later a MIDI-Out MAX patch was used instead (made by Iftah Gabbai) to input MIDI to the Sensor Lab. Believe or not, I was able to play some concerts with it.

MIDI and power cables lacking in this photo.

First USB-Arduino version. More reliable and simpler. MAX patch version MKII was made by Iftah Gabbai (MIDI input and audio output) along with a parallel 10-bit raw-data-to-MIDI MAX patch (made by Oori Shalev). The needed extra electronics for the Arduino were made also by Oori Shalev. Still, the Gabbai patch had a lot of audio-engine and other messy problems. For this version I added also one button to each glove, to change clusters and banks. At this stage I had one cluster of 12 banks.

2007-

Actual wireless version with a Blue-Tooth Arduino and an optional Blue- Tooth Stick to be attached to the computer. The small box can be attached to my belt easily. (It  is an adapted cheap digital camera bag).

One serial input and two outputs, Audio and MIDI. Brand new MAX patch made by Oori Shalev. 10-bit from the Arduino to the Sensor's Module and 8-bit to the sound's module. MIDI out is optional, to control extra software or hardware.