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Laetitia Sonami (born 1957 in France) is a performance artist, sound artist, and teacher who works in electronic performance research. She is most well-known for her performances using her invented instrument The Lady's Glove, first built in 1991 for her performance at the Ars Electronica Festival in Liz, Mechanization takes Control.

Education and Beginnings
Sonami moved to the United States in 1975 to study visual arts at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. It was there that she first came across synthesizers and decided to switch her focus to sound. She returned to France and studied under Eliane Radigue, herself a previous student of Pierre Henry of musique concrète.

The Lady's Glove
The Lady's Glove has gone through many iterations. The first was hand-built in 1991, made from plastic kitchen gloves. The second and third were more "glamorous", and made an effort to hide the wires. The most recent glove was built in 1994 by Bert Bongers in Holland, sponsored by the STEIM Institute

Documentary Film
Sonami's work focuses on live, ephemeral performance and the artist has not recorded or filmed very much of her work. Renetta Soy, a former student at the San Fransisco Art Institute began casually filming Laeititia in 2010, leading to the making of a documentary film: The Ear Goes To The Sound.