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W Magazine September 2016, Rihanna as Furiosa, the last woman on earth and the ruling warrior queen in a dark, dystopian future.

Maison Margiela Haute Couture created by John Galliano -especially for Rihanna- cape; Jennifer Fisher earrings; Rachel Freire neck piece; Fannie Schiavoni bustier; Prada belt, Key chains, agenda, and boots; (left hand) Fallon rings; her own harness.

Photographer Steven Klein, styled by Edward Enninful

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Next few gigs with the mi.mu gloves:

London - March 22 - The Good Ship Rumour Cubes / Richard J. Birkin + Chagall - March 26 - Rich Mix London, supporting Bishi - March 29 - Alleycat, Lejon presents - JUNOBABY (free entrance)

Birmingham - April 16 - mac, Birmingham The Social Exchange 2016

Barcelona  - May 19 - SonarPlusD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THswIJlCcAs

Brussels - June 21 http://www.digitalfestival.eu/

Photo by http://just10photos.com/

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One of the many new visual collabs with @eduardo.fitch that are on their way… Including more interactive stuff for my live show! Beautiful nudes and metal by @rachelfreirestudio

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from Machinist Diandra Forrest and Betty Adewole by Kate Friend

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Cigarette wire neck piece by Rachel Freire

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backstage at Rachel Freire debut LFW show. On|Off Presents.. at London Science Museum February 2009

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Sculpting music with Mi.Mu gloves | Imogen Heap | TEDxCERN - YouTube

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Splendid music aside, these Mi.Mu Gloves are pretty sweet. They allow Heap to change any aspect of her song (e.g. pitch, filtering, tempo, octaves, etc.) with just a wave of the hand. As she puts it in an interview with Dezeen Magazine:

Fifty percent of a performance is racing around between various instruments and bits of technology on stage. For instance, pressing a record button doesn’t look or feel very expressive but actually that moment of recording something is a real creative act; it’s a musical act.

But these actions have always been hidden from the audience and they disengage me in my performance, so I wanted to find a way to do that and integrate it into the performance. It’s the unseen that I’m interested in bringing out of hiding.

There are so many types of sounds or effects that don’t have a physical existence. They are software, they are hidden inside the computer. A bass-line might sound sculpted; it might have this blobby, stretchy sound. For me doesn’t feel natural to play a sound like that on a keyboard because a keyboard is very restrictive and very linear and you only have two hands. I can play a melody but if I wanted to manipulate any kind of parameter of that sound, my other hand is completely used up. It’s quite restrictive.

I wanted to find a way to be really expressive in using these software instruments and effects that feel like how I feel they should be played and how I feel that represents the sound that’s coming out of the speakers.

So in order to free myself up on the stage from my various bits of technology and to bridge the gap between what’s going on on stage and the audience, I wanted to create something where I could manipulate my computer on the move wirelessly so that music becomes more like a dance rather than a robotic act like pressing a button or moving a fader.

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I’m barnsick already!! Had the best weeks ever at #barncamp making gloves, learning about them, making music about and meeting all these insanely brilliant and beautiful people. In total love with #Mimugloves

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Twister of lights with Mi.Mu gloves!!!

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Rachel Freire/ metal collar #rachelFreire #contemporaryjewellery #joyeriacontemporanea #jewelleryactivist

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From Ron Athey’s Spill Ipswich performance of Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains Death Mask - Hermes Pittakos photograph - Manuel Vason Leather Beard- Rachel Freire

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rachel freire AW10/11

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Rachel Freire by Allan Amato

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This November… W: Stories edited by W Magazine’s editor in chief Stefano Tonchi

W magazine is renowned for its avant-garde fashion stories, those elaborate confections of magic and mystery that have inspired and captivated readers for more than twenty years. Never afraid to take risks and certainly not one to cater to commercial tastes, W has forged a unique path in the crowded world of fashion magazines with its lengthy and imaginative stories.

This volume collects more than ten of the most remarkable of these stories from the past two decades, each in its entirety, including never-before-seen outtakes and concept-development material such as sketches, polaroid’s, inspiration boards provided by the photographers and stylists. Each story was the centerpiece of the issue it appeared in and each rides the razor’s edge between outrageously provocative and enchanting, from the bizarre (Steven Klein’’s ““One for the Ages””) to the alien (Tim Walker’’s “”Planet Tilda””) and whimsical (Paolo Roversi’s “Carnevale”).

These and other stories by Klein, Walker and Roversi, as well as Steven Meisel, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and Alex Prager, are featured. Subjects such as Tilda Swinton, Kate Moss, Madonna and Amber Valeta make their appearance on the stage. As a creative outlet, many photographers now create short films while on set to accompany their still images; a DVD of selected films shot by Meisel, Walker and Klein is packaged inside the book.