Hello humans :)
Producer Researcher Musician
Exoglove began as a way to keep musical control on the body. That led to a larger question: can an interface learn the way a particular musician moves, instead of asking every person to adapt to the same mapping?
01It has to work while someone is actually playing.
02Different players should be allowed to move differently.
03The claims should stay as modest as the evidence.
I’m Haoran Hou, based in New York. I hold a B.M. in Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee College of Music and am pursuing graduate study in music and music education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
My practice moves between music-making and tool-building: arranging, production, live systems, wearable sensing, and personalized musical interaction.
I'm a researcher
Exoglove uses flex sensors, touch, and wrist motion to control sound. The software pipeline for individual calibration exists; real-hardware testing and participant evaluation are coming.
View details ↗I recently joined Mark Santolucito’s group and am beginning with the MaxPy and MaxPyLang codebases. My exact contribution is still being defined.
I plan to connect motion-sensing work with Andrew Gordon’s research group. The research task is not yet fixed, so I’m treating this as a direction rather than a result.
This is my longer-term idea for an assistant that learns a musician’s gestures and workflow. Accessibility is one application, but the broader goal is personal musical control.
I'm a musician
I worked on three albums, live shows, and two large concerts with audiences above 10,000 while at Talent Union in Beijing.
View details ↗Contemporary songwriting, jazz and ensemble writing, orchestration, MIDI sequencing, and new digital resources for Chinese traditional instrumental timbres.
View details ↗Instruments Manager and music technology specialist supporting equipment, rehearsals, performance systems, and venue workflows.
Designing Exoglove and its per-user calibration pipeline for embodied, eyes-free musical control.
Beginning research on metaprogramming for Max/MSP, live coding, and structured musical interaction.
B.M. in Contemporary Writing and Production: arranging, orchestration, production, recording, mixing, and score preparation.
These are my current developing papers, not publications. Their titles and claims will change as the hardware, reading, and research develop.
Evaluating rapid per-user personalisation for continuous wearable music control.
JARVIS for musicians
How will AI help us learn music without taking over us?
I’m happy to talk about research, music making, etc.
hroh1007@gmail.com