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Behold: The Future (ReacTable)
zenocyte
Posted: 10 August 2007 01:34 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Lets discuss the future of electronic music performance.  No, the scope is too narrow.  Lets discuss the future of music. 

Almost there; lets discuss the future of the way music is perceived.

With this instrument, you can summon a group of bright 10-year-olds, none of them speaking the same language, none with any musical training, and within seconds they are making a song...together.  Their absorptive minds suck up the vast amount of knowledge presented by the intuitive [and gorgeous] interface; individually, they learn of the joy and fundamentals of sound and music and their creation, but together they learn how their talents fit among the whole of the song, they learn structure and time, but they learn it subconsciously,

they’re too busy having fun.

This will blow your mind.  Bjork uses one live, they had one at Sonar, and hopefully the sheer ingenuity of this device will place one near you sometime soon.  Personally, I hope it changes everything.  Pay attention to how around each object its parameters are symbolically represented, so you can see how the parameters are behaving, how they change as you play with them.

I give you the official demos of the ReacTable.

This first one is it’s basic operation.  The harmonizer/sequencer at the end sounds great.

More features including [vocal or other] Line In signal play and the sexy radar trigger.

Learn more at it’s website:

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable

Also, there’s a bunch more vids on YouTube if you look it up.  But here’s my one big question:

Given BT’s obvious skillz wit da sound, couldn’t he ROCK one of these?

Nathan Rightnour
Posted: 03 September 2007 03:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I’ve been watching this technology come up and it’s fascinating, this particular design looks most interesting

although I have one question - how do you program what the blocks do? do you just buy hundreds of ‘em?

I hope Berklee buys one of these!

   
 
 
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