{"id":207,"date":"2007-02-02T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=207"},"modified":"2007-02-02T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:17:25","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reactable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc&#038;NR\" target=\"_blank\">See demo movie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.<\/p>\n<p>This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jord\u00e0, Martin Kaltenbrunner, G\u00fcnter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>According to a friend at work:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a nasty digital simulation of analogue synthesis! (Easy to do with an overhead tracking and a MAXMSP or SuperCollider patch )&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he gives us these links to prove his point:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s Carsten Nicolai of Raster Noton keepin&#8217; it real:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BdUIqx60vRY\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BdUIqx60vRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;His live shows are a wonder of analogue visuals:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JfhG_tYGhpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JfhG_tYGhpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See demo movie The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}