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WHAT IS THE REACTABLE ?
The reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. The instrument was developed by a team of digital luthiers under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà . The "Interactive Sonic Systems" team is working in the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain. Its main activities concentrate on the design of new musical interfaces, such as tangible music instruments and musical applications for mobile devices.
Sergi Jorda presents the Reactable* at Sonar2006
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HOW DOES IT WORK ?
Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round 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.
Look at the video demos below
