Solfa Glove
The Solfa Glove: An Augmentation Of Existing Gestural Music Pedagogy Using Electronics
Solfa Glove Prototype
Visual Output from Processing Sketch
The Solfa Glove is a piece of wearable electronics that detects what step of the Tonic Solfa scale a user is signing. This data can then be interpreted by software to play the relevant note and to create a visualization of the note, thus creating a link between the gesture and the note. The intention is for this to be used as an aid in music pedagogy where Solfa is often used as a way to introduce pitch scales.
A prototype was created using an Arduino Uno, a 9-axis rotational sensor and a magnetic switch. This relayed information to a processing sketch which would display the sign corresponding to the gesture and generate a midi note that could be received by any midi compatible software.
The project is also open source and can be found on github!