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At 12:57 PM -0700 10/30/99, pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com wrote: >I once watched a concert by a woman from Mills College. She had a velvet >glove that she wired up herself. It had sensors for each of her fingers. >It could also sense the distance from another sensor in her belt buckle >and >yet another sensor attached to one of her shoes. This glove was driving a >gigantic Max patch on her Powerbook which in turn was driving a couple of >samplers and a synth. She said she built her velvet glove controller >because she wanted a more feminine alternative to the videogame >Powergloves >(I think by Mattel) that other experimental musicians were using. She >would perform by making motions with her gloved hand while reciting poetry >or prose. That would have been Laetitia Sonami. She uses the sensors from a Mattel Powerglove in her custom made glove, and there are some Max objects to support this. She's really cool, I have her email address if anyone wants to ask her about it. >I don't know why I didn't ask her when I had the chance her thoughts on >the >male-female ratio in the avant garde music scene. Then again, women were >always in the minority in all the engineering classes I took in college. yet, some of the best engineers I've ever worked with were women. I've never noticed that my genitalia was of much use one way or the other in this field (same with music). Seems to be more of a cultural resistance, which I never really understood. Interestingly, other cultures seem to produce a lot more women engineers than the US. India, east asia, etc. Don't know if that's true for techno-music-geeks too. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com