The Reactable

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Some musical instruments are played by striking, bowing, blowing, picking, plucking, etc. The Reactable is a musical instrument developed by Sergi Jorda and his associates at the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona between 2003 and 2006.
It's played by manipulating a graphic user interface, which is a circular glass tabletop. Various shaped pieces called "tangibles" with painted symbols can be placed on the glass top. As the tangibles are added, deleted, or moved a camera under the glass recognizes the symbols and sends the information to a digital synthesizer. So the Reactable is a "react-table"
Each symbol on a tangible represents a different type of synth module, like a VCO, LFO, VCF, and others. Some tangibles can actually be sequencers, triggers, or even specialized tangibles called "tonalizers" that can limit VCOs to only notes in a particular musical scale.
The table displays graphics as the tangibles are added, deleted, or moved, showing waveforms, circles, grids, and lines. The sound is modified not only by the number and type of tangibles on the table, but also the location, orientation, and proximity of each of the tangibles to the others.
Icelandic pop singer Bjork increased the awareness of the Reactable by using it in videos during her 2007 Volta tour, and the Reactable can be seen and actually played in numerous museums around the world.
Without any instruction, anyone can walk up to a Reactable and start making sound. However, to master the full capability of the instrument takes somewhat longer. As lead inventor Sergi Jorda said, "To learn to play the Reactible, takes something between a moment and a lifetime".
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this is awesome tech bro!!!! thanks for sharing

AneeshSeeYay
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Cool... Never seen one. Hope I do sometime. Thanks Mr. Audio!!!

FabioKasper
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The Future is here. The Future Music Technology is now available in 21st century.
I can see the upcoming Si-Fi movies & Si-Fi Video games have this Teactable inside their night clubs and concerts.

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