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Posted by: swingline Sep 28 2008, 05:09 AM

This puts everything to shame, even a Theramin. Its called "The Reactable".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Sep 28 2008, 05:43 AM

Wow, it sounds like is programed in MAX-MSP. Very nice

Posted by: USAMAN Sep 28 2008, 06:46 AM

Obviously Alien Technology from the crab nebula.

nanoo....nanoo

Posted by: Danilo Capezzuto Sep 28 2008, 09:39 AM

Mork special table...

Nanoo nanoo...rules!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 28 2008, 12:54 PM

I saw this a while ago, looks interesting. More like a game than a real instrument, but cool.

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Sep 28 2008, 02:30 PM

I saw that one...Well it seems cool but I'm not really impressed...I mean , can you play something useful on it at all ?? I guess its just another interface, you can do that on your pc

Posted by: Fran Sep 28 2008, 04:42 PM

That was weird!

Posted by: Scott Gentzen Sep 29 2008, 12:35 AM

Yeah, that's the thing...on the sequencing/synthesis back end there's nothing unusual about it. It's the interface that's the thing here.

The demo doesn't really do this thing much justice. It's mostly a tech demo. Bjork was using one at Coachella this year, but I haven't seen any really good looking/sounding video recordings of it to link to.

For electronic music, sampling and synthesis, basically most of your controllers haven't changed much in the last 30 years. You have a piano-style keyboard. You have sliders, pots and MPC-style pads. Not a lot else. With better touch screens recently, you have stuff like the http://www.jazzmutant.com/ now which makes things interesting.

It's interesting to people like me because I can think of some ways I could use it. It gets you out of the button/key mashing that you tend to do when doing electronic music or working with samples. It's more of a organic interface making it more physical...sound source is modified by its orientation and its proximity to other objects, both sound source and source modifiers (filters). Good stuff. Way out of my budget but I'd use it if someone gave me one.

Posted by: Toni Suominen Sep 29 2008, 11:24 AM

That's a cool hi-tech toy, I'm not quite sure if it can be used as a proper instrument though

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 29 2008, 01:00 PM

You have a strong point there Scott, this interface is a step forward. But it is not a very practical step either. There's a reason why faders and knobs rule the electronic world - simplicity of use. This one IMO more looks good then works good. But I guess we'll be seing these a lot in the years to come, witch can only be a good thing. If they can make it work as good as they look, that will truly be a great interface. On top of that add a small price tag and...

Posted by: Canis Sep 29 2008, 01:37 PM

Haha, enter Star Trek...

Allthough, the only thing I'm impressed of, is the interface. I can't say I would like one of those..

Posted by: Trond Vold Sep 29 2008, 03:22 PM

That sure looks like a fun toy

Posted by: Emir Hot Sep 29 2008, 04:20 PM

They invented this to cover the space market in case an alien wants to become a DJ

hahaha