A Guide To Tangible Music Interfaces

Martin Kaltenbrunner has published a very nice overview of tangible musical interfaces, focusing on table-top controllers, such as music tables and audio building blocks. Projects featured include: Audiopad – a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. Audio d-touch… Read More A Guide To Tangible Music Interfaces

The Technofunk Collective In Action

This video captures Canada’s Technofunk Collective in action.  Technofunk’s recent performance at the Fritz Helder and the Phantoms CD release party unveiled their prototype “reactifunk” table. Through some reverse engineering and loads of tinkering the collective has adapted the basic software of the funkiest musical instrument in the world, the Reactable. Inspired by Bjork’s recent live… Read More The Technofunk Collective In Action

New Reactable Videos

Lautstark (Star TV) war in Barcelona an der Red Bull Music Academy. Und in einem der Studios stand der unglaubliche “Reactable” (welchen übrigens auch Björk auf ihrem letzten Album -Volta- verwendet hat) …  Pepepe war der einzige, der den Tisch so richtig im Griff hatte, was er uns hier mal schnell demonstriert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-7hj7h_jY Reactable in… Read More New Reactable Videos

Cool ReacTable Video Features Tangible Modular Synth Action

The reacTable in campusbot, campusparty, Valencia 2008. Video by criadobot: Specifications, collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a table, and inspired by modular synthesizers of the sixties. It was developed by the Music Technology Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, a research team composed of Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso,… Read More Cool ReacTable Video Features Tangible Modular Synth Action