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.
Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16×16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a “visible music” interface.
Steampunk is a literary genre We thought had pretty much died out quite a while ago. Its basically a form of stylistic reversalism, but one which can be quite visually appealing at times. There seems to have been a resurgence in the area lately, spawning a whole new subculture – so much so that the New York Times has reported on it
Objectified is the next film from director Gary Hustwit [ Helvetica : the movie ]. It’s about industrial design, and the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Alice Rawsthorn [International Herald Tribune] Andrew Blauvelt [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis] Anthony Dunne [London] Chris Bangle [BMW Group, Munich] Dieter Rams [Kronberg, Germany] Fiona Raby [London] Hella Jongerius [Rotterdam] IDEO [Palo Alto] Jonathan Ive [Apple, California] Karim Rashid [New York] Marc Newson [London/Paris] Naoto Fukasawa [Tokyo] Paola Antonelli [Museum of Modern Art, New York] Rob Walker [New York Times Magazine] Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec [Paris] Smart Design [New York] and more participants TBA
Here at teamdustrial we are ancious for this one and we can’t wait for spring to have it…
