reacTable at "Music in the Global Village" Budapest

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

Hi,

I just returned from Budapest where I recorded Audio and Video for a  
DVD with my EBE ensemble and attended (and performed) at the  
conference-slash-festival "Music in the Global Village" there.  
(http://globalvillagemusic.net)

on the last night of the festival, my bandmate Ivana Ognjanovic and I  
had the opportunity to do a little performance on the reacTable. We  
were joined in by Sergi Jorda, one of the inventors of the table and  
Marek Choloniewksi with MacBook electronics. A video was shot, I  
think we will have it on youtube sometime soon.

Until then I have to say that the reacTable is one fun interface! you  
drop the little things (made of transparent aluminum!;-) on the  
table, they connect, you turn them, touch them, toss them around and  
they change behaviour -- oscillators get more vibrato when you move  
them closer to the center for example.  It looks extremely pretty too.

It is made with a combination of free and non-free softwares. The  
reactivision part can be freely downloaded and integrated into your  
own projects, the soundmaking is a PD-patch that is unavailable to  
the public. Theoretically you can make your own reacTable device with  
Max/MSP, OSC, Supercollider PD or some such stuff.

If you are interested in such stuff, you should check out the  
websites starting from here:

http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/?software

The fun part is: since the table is not a commercial product (they  
are talking to SSL who are planning to produce a version in the  
10,000 EUR range sometime next year), the MTG-website is very open,  
listing links to other, similar inventions and studies.

Sergi Jorda is a great person, very interested in the NIME-kind of  
scene ("New Interfaces for Musical Expression"), extremely patient  
when it comes to explaining his table and I think also very very  
smart...

I'll let you know when the video is up and you can watch us jam with  
a nice tool that we only layed our hands on for the first time  
several hours before the gig...

Kai



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