PsyTech is an experimental performance and technology project focused on one idea: merging human movement with machines. Through live performances, installations, and digital content, the team explores how the human body can become a direct interface for sound, expression, and creativity.
Using MANUS Metagloves Pro, PsyTech translates natural hand and arm movement into real-time musical control, allowing performers to quite literally dance the sound.
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, PsyTech’s work centers on the role of the human in that equation. Their performances are built around the belief that technology should not replace human expression, but amplify it.
PsyTech creates live audiovisual experiences where music is not played through traditional instruments or controllers. Instead, sound is generated and shaped through movement. Performers wear MANUS Metagloves Pro and use their hands, arms, and gestures to control rhythm, tone, and texture in real time.
These performances have gained significant attention online, with some videos reaching over a million views, and have led to bookings at festivals and live events. PsyTech currently operates with a paid preorder model and an active waitlist of over 100 eager customers.
To make movement-driven music feel natural and expressive, PsyTech needed technology that could:
Any delay, drift, or loss of tracking would break the illusion and disconnect the performer from the sound.
MANUS Metagloves Pro became the core input device for PsyTech’s performances.
By capturing high-fidelity hand and finger motion, the gloves allow performers to control sound through intuitive gestures rather than buttons or sliders. Movements such as opening the hand, rotating the wrist, or changing finger positions are mapped directly to musical parameters.
Because MANUS gloves deliver stable, low-latency data, performers can focus entirely on expression. The technology stays in the background, enabling a seamless connection between body and sound.
With MANUS gloves, PsyTech has created performances where movement becomes music and the performer becomes the instrument. The system supports live shows, digital content creation, and scalable experiences without sacrificing responsiveness or control.
By turning human motion into a direct input for sound, PsyTech demonstrates how wearable motion capture can move beyond traditionaluse cases and become a creative tool for performance, art, and human-machineinteraction.
Their work shows that merging man and machine does not have to mean losing the human element. In this case, it puts human movement front and center.
