MUGIC®: A World of Motion Awaits
Developed by a Guggenheim award-winning violinist/composer Mari Kimura, MUGIC® (Music/User Gesture Interface Control) is a small, versatile and affordable prototype motion sensor that enables you to use your movements to control virtually anything in software.
Why MUGIC®?
🎨 Unprecedented Artistic Control
MUGIC® empowers you to experiment and create in ways never before imagined.
Explore the intersection of technology and art, and discover new possibilities for artistic expression..
💻 Seamless Integration
MUGIC® works seamlessly with popular software like Max/MSP and Ableton Live
No coding or programming experience required! Get started with pre-made patches!
🎓 Trusted by the Best
Top academic institutions like Harvard and Juilliard have chosen MUGIC® for their music programs, recognizing its potential to revolutionize artistic expression.
👥 Join a Thriving Community:
Become part of a growing community of artists and creators pushing the boundaries of interactive art with MUGIC®.
Share ideas, and collaborate on projects
For anyone looking to unlock their creative control
For Artists
We share Max patches and Ableton devices for free, so artists can start creating immediately, without spending time learning a complicated custom software.
For Students
Many institutions acquired MUGIC® for their classrooms, including Harvard University, UC Berkeley, The Juilliard School and University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin, taking advantage of "Buy 5, Get 1 free" discount.
For Anything
MUGIC® is an easy-to-use WIFI sensor, suited to learn and teach electronic music, interactive graphics and to create sounds, control effects, change lighting parameters, generate visuals and much more. Translate your movements into meaningful data with MUGIC®.
Customer testimonials
Hear from others who have used MUGIC®:
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MUGIC® is a device that enables you to use your movements to control virtually anything in software. You can create sounds, control effects, change lighting parameters, generate visuals, and more. MUGIC® enables you to expand your control over your system and translate your movements into meaningful data.
MUGIC® was originally built with the intention of capturing nuanced physical data to control parameters in music software (like Max and Ableton Live), but you could also use it to control live video, lighting, Ardino projects, etc. MUGIC® uses OSC data via UDP so theoretically anything that can accept or translate this data could be used.
No! We have built a suite of software and devices that will enable you to use MUGIC® without any coding or computer programming experience. We have primarily used MUGIC® with Max and Ableton Live and have made a number of patches and devices available for free download. (Go to Download page) These patches and devices will allow you to easily map MUGIC® data within Max and Ableton. Some experience with Max will certainly help broaden your capabilities, but our patches can be used (and hacked) to achieve fairly advanced results with relative ease.
At this time, MUGIC® only works on computers, both on Mac and Windows platforms.
Yes, if you have the proper tools. You will still need a computer for MUGIC® to connect to, software to manage your data (e.g. MIDI), and an interface that has MIDI capabilities (most do). You simply need to use the “MUGIC® to MIDI patch” (We will soon put them up on the "Downloads page").
