Ok apparently this isn’t real (I thought it was until I read the comments saying it was a computer animation…) but how cool would that be if it was!
Haven’t posted in a while so thought I would try and catch up. This crazy thing is a Reactable - a collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a table and inspired by modular synthesizers of the sixties. It was developed by the Music Technology Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Multiple simultaneous users share total control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on the surface of a bright circular table. Manipulating these objects, representatives of the classical components of a modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sound typologies, generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer. There are only 5 reacTable, one of which was sold to Icelandic singer Bjork.
The Hotz Box MIDI controllers were designed to be the fastest real-time MIDI controllers available and were specifically created to be a new class of Super-Musical Instruments, which would be the ultimate real-time input devices for the Hotz MIDI Translator software. Major Artists such as Yes, Fleetwood Mac and Kitaro have used Jimmy’s controller’s both live and in the studio. The Hotz Box and Hotz MIDI Translator software were the primary instruments used in Jimmy’s new CD “Beyond the Gates of Time”.
(copied from www.jimmyhotz.com)
