I want to share with you this amazing video because it is another proof that you don’t need the ultimate software or to own a Reactable to make something outstanding. Lasse Gjertsen, 22, is a very creative guy from Norway whose talent and imagination have been recognized around the world, by creating home made videos like Hiperactive and Amateur (both examples are quite simple to create, just add some good editing skills), where he just modified the video timeline and created nice rhythmic samples like a drum machine, with these and other works he succeeded in the web by getting more than 10 million views on Youtube, this amazing video phenomenon grew so fast that international companies like Chevrolet and MTV are now looking for his talent, in fact he appears in an article in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Only time will tell us if Michel Gondry will have a successor in Gjertsen.

The Reactable is an electronic musical instrument that allows expressive collaborative live performances for musicians, the Icelandic singer Björk introduced it for the first time to a mainstream event in the Coachella Festival. Created by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà, it can simultaneously perform & share complete control to the musicians by moving and rotating physical objects on the luminous round table surface representing components of a modular synthesizer. It can be collaborative (locally and remotely), intuitive, learneable, masterable and suitable for novices and advanced musicians. The basic principle is very similar to Microsoft’s Surface, that’s going to be launched at the end of this year.