Browser instrument played with bare hands · with Telefm
Sinaida and Kamil Yegelev, the Belgrade musician known as Telefm, built AETHER CURRENTS on one shared belief: tools made with AI should amplify human creativity. The fun comes from the person playing, glitches and flaws included, so the human stays in the loop.
Movement is the signal. On-device hand tracking drives a granular synthesis engine as one direct path: position becomes pitch, a pinch shapes the grain, the distance between the hands opens the space, a fist freezes the sound mid-air. Pitch is quantized to a scale, so a trembling hand still plays in key. The visuals show the same signal as the sound. Nothing leaves the device, and a player can download their music and take it further.
AETHER CURRENTS runs in a browser tab. It is released in versions, and each release comes from watching real people play.
No camera frame, no audio, no account. Privacy was decided first, before any other part of the architecture.
On-device hand tracking, Granular synthesis, WebGL
The instrument travels in a laptop and a webcam: no rig, no install, no server. It can be staged as a live gesture performance with Telefm, opened to an audience as a playable installation, or adapted for a space. The whole tech rider is a table, a camera and a projector.
Work with Sinaida Krivchenko