Imogen Heap's Mi.Mu gloves will "change the way we make music"
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- Musician Imogen Heap invited Dezeen to her home-studio to film this exclusive demonstration of her Mi.Mu gesture-control gloves, which allow her to control instruments and computers on stage by using hand gestures.
"For the first time I get to see how somebody else uses the gloves," Heap told us. "The minute somebody puts their hands in them, they're starting to think creatively about them. I'm really happy that you're going to see what they're up to."
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Imogen heap: The first soundbender
There aren't enough thumbs to express my love for this comment. :D
Thumbs up!
omg the aatla reference got me going like😭😭😭
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My cabbages!
Imogen Heap is criminally underrated. Singer, songwriter, composer, producer, engineer, developer, this woman can do it all. She's always been so far ahead of her time.
RIGHT!! pains me how underappreciated she is
it`s not a biological female
@@yuliawalker5622 what? you dumb or something?
I agree. She does lives with cover requests every Tuesday btw
She also influenced an entire era/gen of hip-hop without even knowing
All my years of air guitar will finally pay off!
Hahahahahahahahaja😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Omg yes I’d love to play air guitar with these
LOL!
😂😂😂😂
"the software is open source"- she's one of few who actually cares about the spirit of innovation.
Onyx Ashanti was the first to make this system.
The quote is "The software is gonna be open source and so is the hardware". It's been 7 years and the source and hardware docs are nowhere to be found. Not really in the spirit of innovation, is it?
it seems she sells them under mimu brand now, you can preorder one glove for 1250GBP, here flies away the open-source spirit ;)
@@om9078 it's not open source. She lied back then and is now selling it for huge $$$$.
@@TheDankFarmer Why not? I love desire and reality meet. Don't you?
She completely revolutionized the electronic music industry and not a lot of people took notice. She is astounding
rascal ; yeah I'm surprised, this is literally one of the most amazing things I've seen idk why it's not more commonly used
rascal ; I'm taking notice now....... wow
Even Ariana Grande tried them out and they still are really known to many people
She's from another dimension
she didnt do shit
nobody does that crap and nobody cares about her stop acting like shes a revolutionary lmao
Can't believe this video came out 6 years ago and we're still not really seeing this tech being used. Crazy..
Holy balls, just saw this for the first time
6 years is different in the digital world.
@@Nox-Eldar
I guess it didn't catch on because it wasn't very practical and the musical options you got didn't justify the effort.
@@DerEchteBold i think it's mostly interesting for non-musicians. I'm not trying to hate, it's a cool concept, but a musician who's in the flow with his instrument can do a lot more with a guitar or drums...
@@iwantahat
Yes, that's kinda what I meant.
From what I've heard, at one of the vendors they had during Peter Gabriel's WOMAD festivals back in the '80s, there apparently were some electroacoustic sensors people could wear and make rhythmic sounds with while inadvertantly dancing.
It sounds like she was almost being emotional when talking about the gloves, you can really tell she knows how much she's changing music. And it also proves how much she cares about music.
this is blowing my mind…those gloves and their programming must be so insanely complex, i can’t even “Imogen” 😆
seriously though, this was 8 YEARS AGO?! WHY HAS THIS NOT GONE ANY FURTHER
I want to try sign language while wearing those
mind-blowing!
Dude, you could write a song like that. Write lyrics, sign them, let the song happen. Or learn the signs to your favourite songs to see how they sound like this. Aaaaaah
that would be great. what if by doing that as well, since there is sound there is vibrations that can also translate into language
Wow, acoustic sign-language. Beautiful but useless.
The signing could be translated into lyrics!
She needs to combine this with vr headset to make a virtual studio where she can visualize what she is doing. Amazing tech.
You might be on to something here
YES
She already made a concert in vr lol so she's almost there :)
THAT is a genius idea.
Amazing. I have to say that turning a part of your body into an instrument is the biggest step in music so far. We never know what we will be getting at next.
they're in development, which means that immi (imogen) will make them better and more improvements to make our experience in making music more graceful and you can see the music flying around the room
Gamewolf21112 if you look at it and you will see it
MI.MU shoes? D:
Lame!
This is silly.
An MPE controller keyboard is going to change the face of music. Stuff like the Roli Seaboard or Sensel Morph with Kontact or Spitfire Audio
it's funny to read these kind of headlines six years after its release and to realise that there's been absolutely no change in the way we make music
absolutely none????....
@@The.happening I mean things have changed, not that much and definitely not in the direction she mentioned here, she also is selling this and is super expensive even when she said it would be open source lol
it's also not open source
at all
they don't even have a single github repository
they're too busy listening to mumble rap and trucks and cold beer music to notice
This was clearly a gimmick at the time
She is a tech witch.
A technopagan
Egecan Talas no... all she did was map keybinds and input to another interface. That is not impressive. Technically wireless keyboards already so this.
Forte of Gray Its still impressive you fucking buzzkill lol
Don't be too mean, I think he's a little kid. All he does is play minecraft.
Makes sense she did music for the Harry Potter play ;)
Narrarator: "But alas, They did not change the way we make music"
Dude get out of my head...
Truth
Maybe two other people use those.
@@dreamsmadeflesh1 elon musk and...
too early tbh, internet's been around for 30 years, took 10 years for it to change the way we did everything, give it time
this woman is a genius
wait till you see martin molin's creations
@@meowtabby5369 how bout we just recognize that she's a genius
@@user_7239 how about we respond to two month old comments commanding praise for them being a female. Shallow woke
how ? i think shes a ghoul . fk computer robots making making . your sick in the head if you think this is genius.
I don't think she is. She developed a tool that didn't need to be invented. Invented out of laziness, because she couldn't be bothered moving a fader on a mixing board? Give me a break.
"pitch, yaw, and roll"
Thanks for explaining music composition in a way that makes sense to us flight sim enthusiasts :)
Thats not composition, it's noise making.
An MPE controller keyboard is going to change the face of music. Stuff like the Roli Seaboard or Sensel Morph with Kontact or Spitfire Audio
@@whatabouttheearth thanks for the heads up but this was a joke.
she's a genius
Why isn’t this getting more attention?
This is such a fascinating invention!
An MPE controller keyboard is going to change the face of music. Stuff like the Roli Seaboard or Sensel Morph with Kontact or Spitfire Audio
This was done already. Yahama Miburi 1994 instrument.
Because it's stupid.
I feel bad for sleeping on her. She's very creative
Sleeping on her?
@@mehdiramzanzadeh5401 as in to not take notice, or miss out
Jack oh thx
@@mehdiramzanzadeh5401 He got terribly drunk, and stumbled into her room to crash.
She was hurting in the morning.
Cory Rikard lol
Missed opportunity to not include Imogen Heap in Cyberpunk 2077. She's literally from the future
This is amazing what a musical genius
Genius period.
There is NOTHING genius about it or her. Go listen to "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane. See if you understand what he was doing. And he did it on a saxophone with a piano player, drummer, and bass player. Music that came from his brain, so complicated, it damn near stumped one of the all time best jazz piano players. Huh?, And all done before a damn computer. She should go make "beats" with Kanye West.
@@kevinoconnor2921 Boy nobody cares about jazz anymore
This is the type of artists that we should be worshiping and supporting.
Instead you have people frothing at the mouth for WAP. Sad.
@@SkiesTurnedGrey the only person I knew who was frothing was ben shapiro lol, everyone i knew thought the song was whatever but they really enjoyed watching online conservatives lose their shit over it. If that wouldn't have happened i don't think wap would've had any more publicity than any other cardio songs.
@@amb600cd0 Conservative or not, I think we all can agree that song was gross. Can't believe anyone would support something like that.
@@SkiesTurnedGrey i don't really care, it's music, it can be about whatever it wants to be, I've never listened to it in a serious way, because it's not a very serious song, people should have the ability to make bad music if they please. People supported it because other people wanted to censor it (and some people don't have very good taste too) i don't think there's any good reason to censor art. Kinda like that one quote(i can't remember who said it at the moment) it kinda goes like, art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. And if you really don't like it, don't listen to it, at the end of the day no one makes you do it, and it's not like blasting out of sirens, people just talk about it because people got mad about it.
@@SkiesTurnedGrey apologies for the long reply, I'm not very good at making my points short i guess lol
Weird in all the right ways.
Tuc exactly imogen heaps style
Its 4 years old
James White ok?
Why is she such an amazing human being.
Guys please stop saying this is JUST like a Theremin... the last time I checked, you couldn't map movements on a theremin to specific parameters in Ableton. Play nice ;)
You can, actually.
Is it novice user friendly?
2,884 days of waiting for the gloves to "change the way we make music" 🤔
Her voice gives me ASMR chills 💕
over twenty years of being absolutely fucking incredible. she is the future of tech in terms of on the fly DAW control
This person is amazing!
She's the one that made the song Jason Derulo sampled ages ago called "Watcha say" or whatever. The song name is actually called Hide and Seek. She's made other amazing songs too and she's friends with deadmau5 and she revolutionised the music industry in her own way, and she also has vocals on Clams Casino - I'm God.
TL;DR: im obssesesd with her, ignore this, check her out lol
Don't forget working with Ariana Grande as well
Noah Gray she worked with her?
June Passingthroughthegate imogen heap is one of arianas biggest idols
It's been six years and I'm still waiting for Imogen Heap's Mi.Mu Gloves to "change the way we make music".
well clearly you aren’t paying attention because it’s happening.. and has been... for 6 years
@@andrewfoster9667 what has it achieved?
@@Jefflon_Zuckergates I mean for the people that have the gloves it has quite literally changed the way they make music. they can control their audio and visuals in real time with the gloves so it definitely has changed for the people who use them.
@@andrewfoster9667 I get you
She is one of my favorite artist alive today.
It doesn't surprise me at all that Imogen Heap is creating this, the song Hide and Seek was other worldly, this is completely other universe-ly 🌌. And she talks about it like she chatting about how she likes her coffee
Yeah, I was also expecting people to bombard the comments with 'Mmm Watcha Say?',
But I think people say is a dead meme now.
As an engineer and a spare time music producer, this makes me hard! Imogen has become one of my heroes!
I'm so glad that you're on the planet, Imogen. Your brilliance and creativity benefits us all. Thank you!
We are living in the future
If you think this, you might be living in the past..
Haha absolutely! We think that all the time. My comment was actually towards James
@@edease5473 u
motion control tech developments over the last few years means you no longer need the gloves, people at my uni were writing code that just lets you use a webcam and it detects movement & gestures, and it seemed to be a fairly normal thing to do (that was 4 years ago). good thing too cos they're super expensive, but anyone can afford a webcam for their setup
what a cute home!
7saany would fit you perfect 🤗😘
Infinite loop what
Such an inspiring and talented woman. I just wish she'd make tracks like "Not Now But Soon" again.
Nice! I wonder how the middle finger sounds like. Hehe
sounds like your screaming. Lol
Alex Hörmann LOL clever man you 😂
Alex Hörmann - middle finger sounds like "HELL"
She literally created a new musical instrument.
I can see these gloves being considered a musical instrument and people taking classes to learn how to use them in a decade.
Mind blowing.
Wow. She is like the iron man of music! Good Job Imogen Heap
Immogen is a genius, her and Brian Eno should make a live album wearing these gloves 🙏🏻
I think 6 years later it is safe to say that these gloves DIDN'T "change the way we make music"
they aren't available for mass retail. if they were they would
@@buddigabong ... sure. and if the butthole-flute - an instrument I developed - would be available for mass retail, it would also have changed the way we make music, that I can tell you!
@@buddigabong A less rude response:
All this glove really does is automate certain parameters. (such as pitch, volume, or whatever knob you can find) As cool as this is, as a producer, it seems like it would be extremely annoying to do automation this way. Especially for high-intensity mixes where automation is all over the track. Perhaps if you were to use a style that made automation the focus of the mix, this would come in really handy. The more automation the mix has and the slower the automation is, the more useful this thing is. At its highest use, it makes automation a little more expressive. It doesn't really change much with music. For me personally, it's way easier and less expensive to just automate in my daw.
@@321Blast And as a musician, i can control all those things with a pedal board and my feet, it would be more of a hinderance than a help if i were to use my hands for those things.
Way ahead of her time, can’t believe I haven’t seen this until now
she always has been. love her
my god this is incredible!! had no idea she did this! would love to hear kimbra make some music with these
Oh my god, I like the way you think! That would be incredible!!
God I’ve always loved her and felt she never received enough recognition, but now I have even more respect.
This all started with the Nintendo Power Glove!!!
NES ADDICT so true. That’s what I thought as soon as I saw them.
NES ADDICT yeah I was gunna say I remember cats doing a much more simplified version with power gloves
Yep. Just as revolutionary.
What an astonishing person! A true legend
brilliant work and brilliant idea!
TEN YEARS AGO?? Where are we now with this tech??
"available for everyone" $7000 :(
lol
Well, she said thay *wanted* to make it available. :V But yeah, you pull together my PC, mic, keyboard, all gear and it barely scraps half of that amount.
It's a bleeding edge technology, in development and targeted at a niche market. Of course it's going to take time before it becomes affordable at a consumer level.
it is really cheap for music equipment
bargain compared to other music equipment
God I love her. Beautiful, amazing voice, great song writer AND smart!
Just wanted to update everyone. Been 6 years. Music has not changed at all because of this.
Why
@@morgan-5171 Why? well first off, it's not very useful to 90% of musicians, which makes it niche and then it's whether or not that niche customer base would actually be interested in it, and it seems like they aren't considering the pricing and functionality. Now, she did make it open source, which if you're an engineer you can build your own, but most of us aren't engineers so.
@@omega1231
I wish Michael was still with us he would know...
@@morgan-5171 Michael, if you can hear this, we need you!
@@Jason-hc5qx
He's gone into the matrix " its to late my friend.
Every time I re-watch this, I think the most underrated thing about it is that she made the software and hardware open source. It's very much in line with her character, but still very cool.
She is a technician more than a musician 👍🏻👍🏻
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS OPEN SOURCE
Its been over 6 years now and honestly she revolutionized music and almost nobody even noticed it actually breaks my heart that she doesn't get the recognition she deserves after all this time xxx
6 years have passed, nothing's changed. Nice title, though, catchy.
Obviously, imagine how annoying it is to use that thing lol yeah the 4 axis manipulation with the hand is kinda cool but I can't see this being useful in any way
This is silly.
An MPE controller keyboard is going to change the face of music. Stuff like the Roli Seaboard or Sensel Morph with Kontact or Spitfire Audio
HMMM WHATCHA SAYYYYYYYYY
came here for this.
Dear Sister..
well of course you did :)
Mmmmm whatcha _saaayyy_
MMM WHAT DID SHE SAYY
INCREDIBLE- SUCH AN AMAZING IDEA. THE BEST NEW TECHNOLOGY IN MUSIC AND ITS MADE BY A WOMAN. so proud.
well this title hasn't aged well has it
L M A O, idk about you but I've learnt a way to hand-shake phatty bass, neighbors aren't impressed it seems by the police complaint.
Imogen you are one of the best musicians ever laid foot on this Earth. Never stop doing music!
it seems like it's yet to break into the BIG exposure, I expect it to, I just wonder what it'll take..
A freak kickstarter?
A collaboration/deal with a gaming company/console?
A single video that happens to go viral?
A new album?
Another artist that uses it in a way that she doesn't?
It's junk. Nobody cares 4 years later.
Ariana used this in her hmt
After 4 years. Still the same. I think humanity has already reached the peak of art n music
It's really just an evolution from what Jean-Michel Jarre was doing back in the 80's and Steve Hogarth from Marillion was doing with gloves back in the late 80's.
I saw Marillion's Season's End tour back in 1989 where Steve Hogarth was using gloves hooked up to a synth.
Hahaha... you beat me to it with Steve Hogarth. Yeath he used them for the Holidays in Eden tour as well if I recall, but has since had a musical device incorporated into a cricket bat.
@@tonywaeland2045 a cricket bat, I will have to look that up 😊
She did this 9 years ago from when I'm commenting this? How could you not like her
Don't get me wrong, I love her and I love the idea there. Also the fact that she made those open source shows that she really cares, but I have to say this: Turns out they didn't.
I was gonna be like "Well you don't know that yet!" Then I saw the upload date. . . so sad. Would have been so cool to see concerts using this tech. Imagine Deadmau5 raving it out on stage. I feel like this tech should be re-visited, especially with all the tech available. I bet one could do some interesting things with this idea and an Xsens suit.
7 years on, gosh, everyone's using them. Hard to imagine what life was like before these were everywhere. Kind of sad that they rendered all other music instruments obsolete overnight, but at least we are getting way better music now that it's all being made with these.
lol
The dumb car they showcase at the beginning and end of this video is like Flintstone technology compared to the masterpiece that is the MiMu glove!!!
Wow amazing. I can't believe this was all a commercial for Mini!
Commenting in 2021 just to say that these totally caught on and every music producer who's worth anything makes their tracks by waving their arms around with a proton pack strapped to them
It's incredible to think that we can now make music with air a movement. That's so nothing in 2021 but when you really think about it that's really amazing.
deffinately wont change how we make music. Software is what drives it, the controllers are arbitrary.
Yes, it is just a button or a switch with a really sophisticated form.
But we move to music almost automatically. I would think it would make composing faster by being more fluid. It wouldn’t be just listening to what you’re creating, but moving with it and creating as you move, and you don’t even have to be hunched in front of some computer. Looks fun.
@@jessicas.6235 It is not like you can move randomly and create music. As any other instrument it requires certain type of movement. Technic is a combination of eye-hand control and knowledge. Any keybordist can create music if he know his instrument in a fluid way. Just look the video "what the waves brought" by Tigran Hamasyan and tell if it is not the case.
I mean, this thing look fun and I respect and admire someone that have an idea and then go for it and achieve it, but this is just a weird button. Nobody will perceive music differently with this (if you dont see her using those globes you would listen this as ant other thing), and also, musicians will not think music differently for this invention.
@@jessicas.6235 That seem to come from the idea that making music is hard, it's not really, the speed of composition depends on a lot more things than fluidity, and fast composition is not necessarily better, there's also a multitude of different approaches to composition, that can all be either fast or slow depending on the level of inspiration, how well you can interpret your ideas and how proficient you are at the instrument or program you are using etc.
Essentially the gloves just makes it so you have to relearn how to control the program you are using, which you had probably already mastered to some degree if you had enough know-how to make the controller yourself or enough money to buy the MiMu. It wouldn't result in better music - as that pertains to an area that is unaffected by using or not using the gloves, it also wouldn't be faster - because, again, the speed is determined not only by how well you can control the program, but how creative you are.
It'll mostly add to the visual aspect of live performance, as in it looks cool, but it won't make anything more fluid and it won't speed up the process of composition.
Wow.....I'd love to play with these....music making while gyroscopic juggling. This is so cool. You are amazing.
Hidden feature: double middle fingers cranks up the distortion
lol and double thumbs up just makes it a nice sine wave
looks like this can also be the best vr controller ever developed to this day
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+Dezeen have you guys considered the potential in helping aid deaf people to speak words through signing? For instance someone could sign the word for help and a speaker that is on their person wound actually say it out loud. These gloves have potential applications in all sorts of health fields. Great job! Keep it up!
check out signaloud, they did exactly that!
Jason Reed
This was in 2014, holy heck.
I wonder where the tech is now.
It is freaking awesome.
i realized that theres prob a lot of ppl who didn't know she made the mmm whatcha say song
@@fl00d69 Hahahahahaha
Don't care.
Imogen Heap is an amazing creator, songwriter, singer, and musician. she must be protected at all costs. also Hide and Seek may be the most incredible song on planet earth, at least in my opinion
Yeah
You know... at first when I saw this, I thought "oh no... another person ruining music." But now that I watched it, I realized that it actually puts human emotion in to electronic music. Because me as a musician, I have never understood how electronic music brings out emotion or how people even put emotion in to the music simply because it's all digital and there is no live feedback. Unlike with a band or with jazz or with an orchestra, it's people pouring out emotion in to a piece of music and adding their own little things here and there. But this thing she has built, I completely understand how this could revolutionize electronic music. It puts the human "impulses" and "spontaniism"(if you will) back in to digital music making. This will help people begin to understand what it is like to improvise and give them the full emotional rush that improvisation gives you deep down. A lot of people don't understand what that is like anymore especially with this new era of digital music making. I really enjoy the thought of people understanding what music really is. Music is about what you feel in the moment. That's something you cant get with a computer mouse, keyboard, and a synth pad.
Why would a synth or a keyboard not allow you to play your feelings in the moment
@@vvv-zo9ps because the original poster is a 70 year old dead-eyed jazz geek who's musical growth stopped in high school band class
WOW!!!! The music to come will be fabulous!!!!
"Run-Time" & "Me the Machine" (both in official music videos) are two recent outstanding Imogen songs...
She is really at the top of her game there... ( I wonder if the whole house is to her or if many people lives there)
Makes me want to go back to London
Yeah but I still miss Frou Frou.
I can hear so many sounds she's used in her songs in this video!
This is mad(cool) I love it, I had a dream about doing this when I was young... ha im kinda happy now
I really wish I made this for her. Her music is intoxicating
Didn’t watch the video, just saw Imogen Heap and wanted to say I love her...carry on.
She lives in a house exactly how I imagined in my head.
Amazing! Innovation takes time. I'd love to see Imogen Heap and Jeff Lynne collaborate.
MI MU I LOOK JUST LIKE BUDDY HOLLY
Hambokuu underrated comment
AND YOU'RE MARY TYLER MOORE
6 years ago?!
This whole time I was thinking this was pretty innovative technology for 2021.
Yep, we are definitely in the future.
That not only going to change the way we make music, it seems like a perfect development for VR controllers as well
Looking at it from 2021 I'm thinking Ableton Live had a bigger impact
Correct.
these are the nicest looking VR gloves that are currently not made for this purpose but totally could work, having sensors for side movements is really impressive too not just finger curling.
she kinda looks like Kristen Wiig
InsertCoolness and kinda talks like her hahaha
THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING HOLY SHIT
Was looking for this comment
InsertCoolness And we've never seen them in the same room 🤔 hmmmmm
Charles Pattie Torp I swear she's Sarah Paulson's long lost sister
Good for her! She doesn't live in a massive mansion. Just a cozy house and music studio, a true artist.
Looks like something Nintendo could've done had they persisted with the Power Glove.
I invented these at 12. I'm 29. I envisioned gloves that allow you to play music in the air and allow people to see what you dream/envision in your mind along with it though. At least someone else who has money can make part of this a reality.
She's a freakin' girl David bowie
That's an insult.
hard to imagine a time before we had these.