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reactable - multi-user electronic music instrument

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The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share ... all » complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

reactable - Link.

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Posted by: aolshove on March 28, 2007 at 8:13 AM

Holy crap! That's friggen amazing!

Posted by: DigitalDetritus on April 1, 2007 at 4:09 PM

Wow. Very cool.

I'm hoping to design something like this with a different interface sometime soon.

Posted by: Doug on April 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM

Nice

Reminds me of the pylon controls in Land of the Lost

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