A self-built wearable instrument designed for vocal-live electronic improvisatiom. Born out of research into posthuman creativity and reimagining feminist experiences through sound, the glove is an exploration of the emerging entanglement between body and technology in performance. Rather than treating this instrument as a passive too, I frame it as agential — this is an creatively evolving, collaborative relationship!

The glove incorporates custom-made flex sensors, soldered to an Arduino ESP32 microcontroller, programmed in the Arduino IDE and Max/MSP. The system communicates wirelessly via OSC, allowing untethered movement and fluid real-time interactions between physical gesture and sound processing. The design embraces a DIY, feminist ethos, valuing the imperfect and the handmade. I chose to resist commercial interface aesthetics, instead visually externalising the system and the stitching, as well as upcycling a gardening glove, plastic sheet, and scraps of yarn.

Through movement, voice is reimagined as a textural tissue.