{"id":147637,"date":"2025-02-28T18:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=147637"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:22:33","slug":"6-options-for-gestural-music-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/02\/28\/6-options-for-gestural-music-making\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Options For Gestural Music Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Make Music in Thin Air: 6 Spatial Performance Tools and Techniques\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K0cEjXx7v8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@loopop\">loopop<\/a> video, host <strong>Ziv Eliraz<\/strong> takes a look at 6 options for gestural music making.<\/p>\n<p>Gestural music making has been around for more than 100 years, since the introduction of the theremin in 1920. In that time, dozens of gestural music making options have been introduced.<\/p>\n<p>While none of them have achieved the recognition of the theremin, there are a wide range of options, offering both new capabilities for expression, and compatibility with a wide range of electronic music hardware and software. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Topics covered include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">0:00 Intro<br \/>\n1:40 HANDMATE<br \/>\n3:10 Expression maps<br \/>\n4:15 Thin air notes<br \/>\n4:40 Muting notes<br \/>\n5:10 Scale qtz.<br \/>\n5:35 Timing correct<br \/>\n5:55 Chords in space!<br \/>\n6:40 LEAP MOTION<br \/>\n8:10 GECO V2<br \/>\n9:25 CC Notes (JazzMe)<br \/>\n10:45 CC Air drums<br \/>\n11:25 BeatFader MIDI<br \/>\n12:25 Uwe\u2019s set<br \/>\n14:35 MI.MU Glover<br \/>\n16:10 Posture qualifier<br \/>\n17:40 MODULAR<br \/>\n18:00 Theremin<br \/>\n18:30 Pitch qtz.<br \/>\n19:10 Timing correction<br \/>\n19:40 Flame TAKT<br \/>\n21:20 Flame TON<br \/>\n22:20 STANDALONE<br \/>\n22:10 Theremini<br \/>\n22:40 Flux<br \/>\n24:40 MIDI in AR?<br \/>\n25:10 Misc tools<br \/>\n25:45 More?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a wide range of options, offering both new capabilities for expression, and compatibility with a wide range of electronic music hardware and software.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/02\/28\/6-options-for-gestural-music-making\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 Options For Gestural Music Making<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,10,41],"tags":[19394,34370,35613],"class_list":["post-147637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controllerism","category-midi-controllers","category-theremin","tag-gestural-synthesis","tag-loopop","tag-spatial-performance-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gestural-music-making.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147639,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147637\/revisions\/147639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}