The music is in your hand.

Yes, it is. Music is in your hand. What? U doesn’t believe me? Well, let me tell you this.. a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia have equipped a set of gloves with position sensors that track where they are in three dimensions. So, as the results, different gestures produce different kinds of sounds.

For instance, you can create consonants by closing your right hand, and when you open your right hand, it creates vowels. But wait.. what will you do with your left hand? Your left hand controls the sounds that have "stops" in them - like ‘B’ or ‘P' sound.

The idea of this technology was, in part, to duplicate some of the motions of the throat and tongue when speaking. Therefore, since vowels are 'open' sounds which are made with an open throat and lips, opening the hand makes those types of sounds. For an additional level of control, the right hand makes higher-pitched sounds when held up and the horizontal position controls which vowel is sounded out.

The technology can be used to make music, too. Among Fels' co-investigators for this project are UBC School of Music Assistant Professor Robert Pritchard and Johnty Wang, an electrical and computer engineering masters student -- and concert pianist. So far, there have been several public concerts using Fels' invention.

Thanks to http://www.livescience.com/18562-technology-turns-hand-gestures-music.html for this new info.. =)