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Tags for this video have been changed from 'otamatone, music technology' to 'otamatone, music technology, japan, japanese' - edited by kronosposeidon

well, in the music technology market with the big playeyers it is often like this:
when inventing something new: build something huge, a flagship product
build many smaller products based on flagship tech, and sell a gazillion of those

roland is doing alot of exciting things these days with physical modeling tecnology, stepping away from traditional sampling. maybe a hint of that was when their newest fantom workstations didnt come with those sampling expansion boards, but instead had slots of new physical modeling chips.
so i am predicting that we will see lots of other products based on this piano very soon. maybe with one or two chips instead of 4 etc.

and this reminds me of what i had planned my next sift would be about

>> ^bamdrew:
I hear a high-pitch buzz... like a wookie singing softly... at 2:19-2:20, as if the software simply pasted-in a series of the same clip repeated, grabbed from the surrounding file.


That's not a software glitch, that's actually the session Wookie on backup. You don't want to loose him.

>> ^westy:
seems pritty easy to use to me, i do alot of photoshop work its intresting translating music into a image and then fixing it.
maby you could save the image of a song as a strip print it of stick it on a wall then people could photograph it and then exstract the song from it.
In the future you could do it in real time with a mobile phone by simply taking a photograph of one of the music images. Then your phone decodes it and plays back to you a song or voice recording.
this would save you having to have an active server sending people files over blue tooth. (idea coppy right westy)


i've done something similar in an art project. we had cameras watching various things, one was looking at a road intersection (for rythm) one was looking at... the audience maybe? and one was looking at a dancer (the melody). and the images was translated to sound.
so the dancer would improvise to what she heard, and the music would follow her as well.

there's also synthesizers like Cameleon 5000 that has an algorithm to extract the "sound" out of images. fun stuff with very unpredictable results

>> ^netean:
the squeaking of the guitar strings is nothing but sloppy, lazy playing...
lift your damn fingers off the fretboard- this sound is like nails on a blackboard

In classical guitar, the sound may be undesired but something like acoustic rock, or delta blues, it is a very common sound. I think Robert Johnson would agree...but what does he know?

From the YouTube page:
"The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous 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.

This instrument is being developed by a team of digital luthiers (Sergi Jordà , Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso), at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain."

There's already another video on here about this table. This one explains what the different objects do and how they are used.

More info here: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable