pisquee Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Having a discussion at work, trying to work out what the guy behind bjork was playing - looks like some kind of touch screen synth mixed with air hokey!a few videos of the gig on youtube if you want to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drscab Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/ It be that :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 What a very strange website, for a very strange product! What is it? can't tell you.How much does it cost? Well, we haven't decided?I downloaded the software but it doesn't make a noise? Thats because the synth part isn't availble (and won't be)I want to write my own? Very difficultAre you giving conerts where I can hear one? We have done. They don't exactly seem to be very proactive. After hearing the demos, I'd question what the people 'operating' them are called. Musicians? Personally I would say not, but there again, they are probably musicians in the DJ kind of context - they are producing music, but not as we currently know it? Very clever electronics and a really good visual display to go along with the sounds, but I'm not convinced it is worthy of the tag 'Music' - this kind of end result's been around for years, and never seems to get anywhere due to the unrepeatability aspect. Recreating a great sound would be very difficult the second time around - and doing it on cue, in a musical way would be quite interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 It's no less 'music' than something like, say, "Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds". Personally, I thought it looked very interesting. I'm not surprised they don't publish any sort of list prices for it - I'd imagine that the prospective user base for something like that would be so small as to not make it worth their effort preparing a price list! It'll be interesting to see where a Reactable pops up next ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 ... this kind of end result's been around for years, and never seems to get anywhere due to the unrepeatability aspect. Recreating a great sound would be very difficult the second time around - and doing it on cue, in a musical way would be quite interesting.And thats where we were with analogue synths - you may religiously write down the settings but you never got the same sound again exactly. The less 'ordinary' the sound the more that was true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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