At this year’s ICMI Workshop in Berlin, Reactable co-founder Martin Kaltenbrunner had the honour to hold the keynote speech on Tangible Musical Interfaces. After a whole day of interesting student presentations about innovative musical interfaces, an academic jury had the difficult task to select one of the projects for a prize, which was sponsored on behalf of Reactable Systems. In the end it was decided to split the prize in order to award the two most outstanding creations:
The Attract-O-Tron by Frederik Kalisch and Steffen Müller are two exceptionally well designed hand-held musical artifacts, which generate sound using electric motors. The GRID table by Tobias Hornberger convinced through its thorough synthesizer and composition concept, which was realized using colored building blocks.
Apart from these two awarded projects we’d like to mention some further brilliant projects, such as the the Air Piano by Omer Yosha, the Squawk controller by Dennis Helfrich as well as the Looplex table interface by Marcus Holzmayr, which even had been realized using our reacTIVision toolkit.
Many thanks to the organizers and jury members of the ICMI workshop: Steffi Beckhaus (Uni Hamburg), Christian Geiger (FH Düsseldorf), Cornelius Pöpel (FH Ansbach), Holger Reckter (HS Harz)