Vancouver 2010, Sports and Culture
The Reactable will be at the CODE Live festival during the Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver. The Olympic Winter Games are not only about sport, but also about getting together and enjoy this great city and all it has to offer. If you are interested in sports as well as interactive arts and cutting edge music, Vancouver is the place to be this February.
The CODE Live exhibition space is at the Centre for Digital Media, 577 Great Northern Way. Open from 4th of February until 21st of February,
10 am to 6pm.
Reactable supports Digital Luthiers
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)
Reactable at experimenta Heilbronn
Recently we installed a Reactable at the experimenta in Heilbronn, the biggest science center in South-Germany. It was officially inaugurated by Baden-Wuertemberg’s minister president Günther H. Oettinger on November 12th and will be open to the public from November 14th on.
Continue reading…Sub Mix Pro
Apart from permanent installations for the broad public, the Reactable Experience can also be used in a professional context. One example of this is the Reactable installed at Sub Mix Pro studios in Turin, Italy.
Museum of Communication, Bern
We have just installed a new Reactable at the Museum of Communication in Bern, Switzerland. The inauguration is on Friday, 14th of August. The Reactable is shown in the context of the “As time goes Byte” exposition which opens a window into the past and future of computing by showing contemporary projects from industry, art and science. The Reactable is a perfect fit for this exposition as it shows interaction design which sooner or later will be part of our daily lives. Visit “As time goes Byte” and try out the future of music interaction.
Reactable at Sonar 2009
Reactable will be one of the main attractions of Sonarmatica and SonarKids, the exposition space of the well known Sonar festival for electronic music which takes place in Barcelona this weekend, 18-21 of June.
As a collaboration between Reactable Systems S.L. and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) we will show 4 Reactables at the same time. One table will feature the well known tangible Reactable synthesizer, and 3 tables show applications designed and programmed by students of the UPF.
The student projects are SongExplorer by Carles Julia, Punk-o-Table by Dani García Rodríguez, Iván Hernández Gutiérrez & Miguel Ferreiro Novoa and PuckR by Roger Pujol, Pablo Molina, Frederic Font & Francisco García.
Musikmesse roundup and future plans
The Reactable attracts professionals at the Musikmesse
We are back from the Musikmesse in Frankfurt where we successfully presented the first commercially available version of the Reactable. Many thanks to everyone who supported us! We were overwhelmed by the positive feedback we got from the visitors, and there were several questions we got asked. So we wanted to clarify again what our current and future plans with the Reactable are.
We are currently manufacturing a version of the Reactable for institutional customers on-demand. The Reactable Experience is very robust and heavy and is built to withstand the exposure to hundreds of daily users. Its software focuses on the collaborative aspects of the Reactable. We produce, install and support this version for each customer, therefore the Reactable Experience is not a product you can simply buy in a shop.
Continue reading…Reactable Experience at Musikmesse Frankfurt
The commercial presentation of the Reactable Experience, a version of the Reactable specifically designed for institutional customers, is taking place at the Musikmesse Frankfurt 2009 in Germany, from April 1st to 4th. The Reactable will be located at stand D96A of Section 5.1.
Continue reading…Reactable Systems is ready to go
On February 25th 2009, Reactable Systems has been created. The founding members of this start-up venture are the same team of engineers, computer scientists and musicians, which four years ago created the Reactable: Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Marcos Alonso and Xavier Serra, together with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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