Creativity

Jeremy (of Buffalo Builders / Paul Hahn fame) pointed out Reactable to me. Reactable is an incredibly cool modular synthesizer that uses an amazing light-table interface which allows a user to create music by manipulating objects on the surface.

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round 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.

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