The Reactable: Tangible and Tabletop Music Performance

  The Reactable : Tangible and Tabletop Music Performance

   Basically this paper talks about the musical instruments turns music into a tangible and visual experience, enabling musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure control its parameters and be creative.

    As we all know, the traditional musical instruments are really physical for the performances to be played with, actually, the traditional musical types still have the effects on inspiring the musicians to deal with the musical new interfaces.but this new type of instruments totally shifts from the lower-level details to the higher-level details from the views of performers. So, in the way the musician performance can pay attention to controlling strategies rather than perform data, which I think it can give the performers more freedom to create the sound, structure and parameters, therefore, to some extent, more creative works can exit.

    What I mentioned above  is called musical tables which becomes difficult to keep track of every new proposal, personally I think musical tables are pretty interesting for me, because the music itself for people is hard to be tangible, especially for those who don't have talents on editing the music, that will be a good try for those people to get step on. And also, the musical tables can be used well in collaboration and control sharing.

  Firstly, for music controllers, such an innovative musical interface is really essentially different from the original ones. it’s pretty a good start for them to develop changing musical structure by using them. 

   Secondarily, the visual feedback play a significant role on the tangible music interfaces and musical tabletops, which becomes an important asset to communicate the states and behaviors during the musical process, also the visual feedback can solve another relevant problem of laptop music performance.

    According to the last part, I want to mention more about the reachable system, mainly, it is about rotating and connecting the translucent and luminous  to each other, which is based on computer vision, deeply inspired by modular analogue synthesizers.