WEGLOVE arm dance

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

WEGLOVE is a wearable sound device. Working with wearable instrument, the live performance stage is not just a place to perform, but a location for debuting new wearable tech sound works. This can be pleasurable and exciting for
the audience, but can also involve long drones.
Pictured right,
the WEGLOVE, prototype in development.
Our environment, our world is our instrument is the inspiration, the point of departure for WEGLOVE. Multi(non)functional, bright and roughly made during the 2007 workshop “Building Fashionable Machines” (fashion & circuit bending) in Rotterdam, NL. Chicks on Speed were having a productive year of building Objektinstruments while touring. At this point there was not much time to develop the technology.
The WEGLOVE was used in its beautifully simple state of a piezo soldered to the mono XLR cable and much of the action is derived from the performing and the filters or amps the WEGLOVE was plugged into.
Found in the archive while preparing the exhibition at Muzeum Susch 2019, WEGLOVE became an installation piece and later traveled to ARS Electronica as a tongue in cheek addition to the bleeding edge technology and culture, show and tell festival. The immediacy and power of the instrument, this direct simplicity leaves the mind space for appreciating the power of crystal dust in the ceramic on metal which transforms vibrations to electrical pulses.This direct transformation of motion transformed into sound is effective in combination with choreography, sounding the body with touch to have the motion be audible on a macro scale..
Adding a pre amp and filter. The work, WEGLOVE is to be released as an open source pattern, soldering instructions for download, available in June 2021. There remains the thought, touching the world and the resonance becomes music when amplified, could this WEGLOVE be groping into the Virtual Reality? Would we like to have a rudimentary wearable instrument which plays into VR? Rather than giving it too many musical possibilities, Logan, with Nikolas Müller has 3D rendered WEGLOVE into a playful creature.

WEGLOVE TEAM:
Video: Cecilia Candia, Photo: Pitt Selma Sauerwein. 3D modeling: Nikolas Müller. Special thanks Temperary Gallery in Cologne for the space. Chicks on Speed thank the Goethe Institute for their generous support ‘Virtual Residencies’ for adding financial support in the developmental phases.