Jamie Park – LO – 10

Latetia Sonami is a sound artist and a performer based in San Francisco. The work that I will be discussing is called “Lady’s Glove,” an instrument that makes and manipulates sound in a live performance. The sensor within the glove measures the motion, speed, and proximity, sending the data into Sonami’s computer and thus creating music. This glove is will never make the same sound unless one replicates a completely same motion, meaning even Sonami might not know what the music will sound like until it actually happens. In that sense, I admire her artistic sensibility and knowledge on what to do to make the sound pleasing, especially in live performance settings. I am unfortunately unsure what algorithm she used to create music that would sense her motion. But I admire this project because it questions the definition of music and takes the concept of computational music to another level.