During the Berlin residency, Hannah pointed me towards a one-handed keyboard, the Twiddler. This seemed perfect for my plans to livecode while inside the cocoon, so I ordered one. I had to modify it with a little piece of foam to make it fit snugly in my small hands.

So while I otherwise did not have much time to work on the performance over the past month, I spent about 30 hours learning how to type on this keyboard - at home, in public transport and other moments where I had a bit of spare time. By now, I can type all the letters of the alphabet at a speed of average 125 character per minute or 25 words per minute. The next step is capital letters (the shift button), and all the brackets, punctuation and so on needed for coding.

Reflecting on the proces of training the body, it is interesting to notice how the fingers get trained to reach the different keys and hit the right chords; how often doing this at a certain speed makes it easier, than doing it slowly. Most interesting is how it seems to make a difference when I hold my arm in a different orientation - how a different posture of the arm, changes in how the finger positions are experienced.