reactable - A new sort of musical instrument
The reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. While the sounds of the second video aren’t so musical and more demonstration it gives some great ideas on what this device could do. Looks like something that’s ripe for a DIY version.
Another video after the jump.
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