OH HAPPY DAY

Sitting On Fire. Lord Let It Rain On Me. True Love Will Find You. Cool Waves. Amen. Going Down Slow. Feel So Sad. Soul On Fire. Walking With Jesus. Stop Your Crying. All Of My Tears. Baby I'm Just A Fool. Anything More. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. Broken Heart. I Think I'm In Love... Lord Can You Hear Me. Oh Happy Day.

REACTABLE

basic demo #1

basic demo #2

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round 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.

The instrument was developed by a team of digital luthiers under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà. The "Interactive Sonic Systems" team is working in the Music Technology Group within the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Spain. Its main activities concentrate on the design of new musical interfaces, such as tangible music instruments and musical applications for mobile devices.

The reactable intends to be:
*collaborative: several performers (locally or remotely)
*intuitive: zero manual, zero instructions
*sonically challenging and interesting
*learnable and masterable (even for children)
*suitable for novices (installations) and advanced electronic musicians (concerts)

The reactable hardware is based on a translucent, round multi-touch surface. A camera situated beneath the table, continuously analyzes the surface, tracking the player's finger tips and the nature, position and orientation of physical objects that are distributed on its surface. These objects represent the components of a classic modular synthesizer, the players interact by moving these objects, changing their distance, orientation and the relation to each other. These actions directly control the topological structure and parameters of the sound synthesizer. A projector, also from underneath the table, draws dynamic animations on its surface, providing a visual feedback of the state, the activity and the main characteristics of the sounds produced by the audio synthesizer.

http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/

RENATA EN BUENOS AIRES

navegar es necesario / vivir no es necesario

Fate / up against your will / through the thick and thin / he will wait until / you give yourself to him...

ASIR LA FORMA QUE SE VA

Hay quienes creen en la Divinidad, únicamente por el pavor ante la posible nada. Igualmente hay quienes adoran la forma artística ante el temor de que termine por desintegrarse para siempre. Pero en este caso la angustia no es la única causa, sino que a la vez hay una tácica devoción sensorial, tan antigua como los propios objetos estéticos. Es la fe en la forma, no por el riesgo del vacío, sino por el puro placer de disfrutarla. Igualmente como cuando se adora a la Divinidad por sí misma, y aun si no existiera. En realidad, ni espuria, ni imputable a barrocos o parnasianos decadentes. No hay que avergonzarse de ella. No hay que reducirla a la postración. Obrar así no es otra cosa que renegar de nuestro continente. Porque los cuerpos en que moramos también poseen un contorno, también una estructura donde se encuentran en perfecto orden y concierto los secretos órganos vitales. Aferrémonos a ella, como nos aferramos a nuestra forma corporal, ante el embate del tiempo, ante la aproximación de la ineludible muerte.

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