Reactable: Instrument of the month
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.
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