concert reacTable * @ La Sala (c) Castelló (full)

[djkennothon]

Its called improvisation...

[KuBalDIS]

э американс русские есть?

[obezyankanol111]

I think that the reactable is just good with the musci of bjork

[usernamevacuum]

You're right dude! highest respect for the technology - however, were these used for the sound effects in 'Contact' starring Jodie Foster?

i'm sure some dudes will be ripping dope sounds on these sooner rather than later though! chur

[konrad303]

The sound technology is nothing special, it's pretty simple modular synthesis with sample players added. Reactable is about the übercool user interface, not about the sounds it can produce.

[usernamevacuum]

ok bro thats ubercool!

[KurtDunniehue]

I don't know about arguments as to this being art/music or not...

But god damn it sounds like crap.

Take away the visual, you have an agonizing clash of alien sounds. Like a HAM operator's attempt at Jazz.

Not saying it's not music. Just saying that if it is music, it's crap.

[manuellombardi]

most of contemporary musci sounds like this, you're saying that contemporary music is mainly crap.

Maybe, you just don't like it.

[realidadaparte]

Sadly, it is mainly crap.

Anyways, Reactable, itself, is an amazing invention as a very new concept of interface.

[lumin750]

I've heard great music with the reactable. These guys suck. A 3 year old can do what they're doing. There's no method to their madness. Without structure it's just noise, which ironically is the name of this genre of music. At the end it get's cool but I couldn't watch it because of the shitty camera work.

[DJmisplacedmarbles]

saw this on the bbc's 'click' program a while back ...mental.

[fivedinners]

SOUNDS LIKE A FRIKKIN SMASH ADVERT

[Flugulate]

The argument is/is not music is pointless and tiresome. The "open your mind" argument is defensive.

No one will master this any more than anyone raelly mastered the theramin. The interface is too maluable.

The early Moogs had the same problem. The synth was useless until it became a keyboard instrument.

That said, I'd love to noodle with this toy!

[Dilworthy]

check out bjork's live stuff, she has a reatable guy who does some pretty amazing stuff, I thought it looked a bit difficult to get something useable but was well surprised. think the tracks live on jools holland but theres a live gig one too. Nuff rambling for now

[willingpassenger]

What an odd flow of words in relation to making noise and music. I make my music without keyboards and yet is is somehow music non the less. You have let yourself be weighed down by the gravity of "reality". Liberate yourself and you could just find yourself creating music from pretty much nothing.

[Flugulate]

I guess you better define music for me, willingpassenger. Otherwise your comment doesn't go anywhere. Really "the gravity of reality." Let's not be silly.

[druglust]

hahaha you filthy...

[Ramakandra]

it sounds like Tangerine Dream

[jrbuuck]

It's only a matter of time until someone masters the reactable and creates a symphony on it. To those who say it just makes noise... Well, so does an electric guitar or violin or saxophone if you don't know how to play it. This is still vey new. Most of the concert videos are of people just playing around or experimenting. I've heard someone play Bach on a Theramin and it was exuisite. Just wait.

[ElProempie]

i could listen to that all day long.. but i dont think the neighbours would like it. they are old and listens to opera. me on the other hand, i love this kind of sci-fi music.

[comeonthunder]

you're both right, I'm currently in the process of building my own reactable, and have done alot of research into it, the amount of sounds it can make is, theoretically infinite, but it will take some getting used to, and the instrument is fairly new and very rare. I imagine that soon it could be used as a stand alone instrument in places like clubs. You can see how difficult it is to play from watching, it all depends on where the blocks are places, the angle they're at etc.

[hozeyzachary127]

nxt time hold the fucking camera still u dipshit!

[skfrog]

next time, try to fix the cam

[brainfork]

I remember seeing the intro video for this technology, I thought "Hey what a great device, I bet this could revolutionize music. And now, after half an hour of seeing how people are using this, I have come to realize how wrong I was. It's half an hour of random noise... at one point it sounds like a car is stalling. This is not music, and I am very disappointed.

[KyaputenHarokku]

It sure is avantgardistic. But do you also call "Stockhausen" not music? But I do agree, you have to like atonal music.

[brainfork]

To clarify, I wouldn't call Stockhausen music. But as you pointed out, one must have a like for atonal "music" which I definitely don't.

Don't get me wrong here, there is a place for this kind of sound, I just don't think calling it music is really deserved.

[KyaputenHarokku]

Okay, I didn't want to insult you either, I, for instance, like what I see here. But you can't really discuss taste anyway^^

[brainfork]

I didn't take it as an insult, don't worry. You made a good point, it's an issue of taste which a subjective point.

[Roswellsounds]

I think that you need to expand your definition of music. Too bad that a genious man like Karlheinz Stockhausen has gone away some days ago...

[brainfork]

I'm sure that it takes a genius to create this stuff, but to me, it sounds like background noise. It isn't pleasing in the least, and expanding my definition of music isn't going to change that fact.

[Roswellsounds]

I meant that you needed to expand your definition for yourself, not for others to listen. If you don`t enjoy this kind of music, that`s all right.

But you can`t say: "I wouldn`t call this music". Subjetive opinions are not interesting, specially if you talk about something as abstract as music.

[new2lw]

I tend to agree with brainfork here. The problem is the table is so rare yet that very few good artists have gotten to use it. The Bjork videos, btw, weren't very impressive to me when it comes to this table. The mixer looks like he just has one sample up and that's mostly what you hear, the few frequency changes you could hear weren't very interesting.

[cumhuryilmaz]

this is shit man..no melody, no harmony,,just bullshit..,imagine if the the power gone what they gonna do with that thing...but i can still play my piano..

[plurp7]

eggs!

[pilsendorf]

lookatyourshoe chupalo!!!!

do you want a fckn translation???

ask for it, more than one will give it ALL to you.... even in your fckn yanki mouth!!!!

[Triniteeluvingurl]

wow it took them a heck of a long time to come up with something that actually resembled music

[ebk72]

i think thats their concept... go look bjorks video with this thing. there is pop music right away...

[ManoloDecadente]

pregúntele a Björk que tal suena, en vivo y a todo color, no hay manera de saber si la tecnología llega a las manos, hasta que la gente común la prueba...DESPÚES DEL SINTETIZADOR es lo mejor que le ha pasado a la música...

[ManoloDecadente]

ask BjÖrk about it, alive and rumbling, the is no way to know how it works until anyone can us it, after the SynthetizerS is the best thing that has happend to music

[Tishagi]

Great... Incredible in it's whole. Ambient in nature... I loved it even tho it was amateurs .

[ysius]

i hear some cool sounds, but its not really music what i hear.. or maybe i have to see it as 'new' music

[Seretur00]

Hey man calm down! btw, i'll translate him:

for silvestreherrera: It's sound synthesis... and as such... you've got to work hard to det to that "interesting" thing... I propose you play with the NI soundforum, which is free and is basic synthesis... to understand where the complex sounds come from starting from basics... it depends on the performer... REACtable seems to me one of the most innovative ideas of media art...

[DrakCorpInc]

I speak english pefectly, but why do I or anyone MUST write down in english just for you to understand it, american selfish motherfucker?

[lookatyourshoe]

Why? It is necessary because I say it is necessary, champ.

[DrakCorpInc]

someone give him a Nobel prize. this guy's a genius.

redneck.

[lookatyourshoe]

Chicago = the south, for sure.

[DrakCorpInc]

so NOW you're being literal. brilliant.

[Triniteeluvingurl]

ok, for the whole language thing, why dont you try learning a new language if you want to understand them so bad? you cant make everybody speak ur language no matter how hard you try. it is a public website they can speak what they want. if you dont like it just ignore it. but please dont be disrespectful out of your ignorance. Im sure if you ask nicely someone will translate for you

[PaddyShadow]

that has nothing to do with the americans. english is the global language and everyone has to use it when entering international spaces like this website.

[DrakCorpInc]

I'm sorry, says who?

I allways write down in english, but if someone does NOT feel like it, that must be respected.

If what you're saying is true, then a politic from this website should be NOT to upload videos in other lenguages, but that's not true.

So if I speak spanish or german or whatever, why must I write in english if I don't feel like it AND I want my message to be captured by non-english speakers??

[PaddyShadow]

There is no reason to support the people who refusing to learn english. But what I meant was not a law but a commitment. Actually there was a big poll on which language should be chosen for international traffic. As we all know English has won. So not using the global language on a global site is first of all anti-international.

[Triniteeluvingurl]

well i guess i should hae written that response to you instead of lookatyourshoe. oh well you can still read it

[d3xtOr]

The most popular language in the world isn't English. More people speak Mandarin than English. Natively english speaking countries are a minority.

[PaddyShadow]

Surely that's corect, but I'm not talking about natives, but about people from two different countries talking to each other. That's when English comes in. I recently came across the fact that there have been attempts of creating a new language for global use, but they more or less failed. would've been interesting

[shukishmo]

yeah its called sign language

[PaddyShadow]

Don't know if the sign language is global. I was talking about something called Esperanto and other so called "constructed languages".

[shukishmo]

yeah i heard of those.. they are made by fags that are too lazy to learn a new language and experience and learn about a new culture.

[PaddyShadow]

i think you're pretty much right about that. From my viewpoint I still think English has the biggest role in that. Firstly because it has been chosen for communication of pilots for example. Also if you want to make your website viewable for as many ppl as possible you use English. And for example a Finnish guy talking to a German: English again. I think this will expand more and more in time until there's only one language left.

[Roswellsounds]

I dont`t think that the human race is ready to be united behind one language, one flag, one religion, or one race.

The animal aspects of their behaviour and selfishness & hate just keep coming across, obscuring common sense, understanding & empathy.

History has given us plenty of examples of this terrific behaviour, and you know, history is like a loop! Or an Ouroburos, wich is the same concept...

[MrMiekal]

WTF?

[ubentu]

XD I sounded so stoned when I made that comment, seriously though cause i said aetheist people downvoted the comment, that's just sad people. you need to do reasearch to know what I meant, I was replying to someone else.

[vonbranch]

the camera work is piscue poor.

[diazgprix]

para silvestreherrera: Es síntesis de sonido... y como tal.. hay que trabajar mucho para llegar a eso "interesante"... te propongo jugar con el soundforum de NI, que es free y es sintesis basica... para entender de donde vienen los sonidos complejos partiendo de los mas simple... depende del instrumentista... REACtable me parece una de las ideas mas innovadoras del media art...

[litorca]

nonono, las posibilidades son infinitas! pero es normal que todavia no suene a musica. cuando llevemos años con un instrumento asi comercializado ya veran los virtuosos que conoceremos!

[zerez9]

hey muy interesante, la interfaz parece ser lo más espectacular. porqué no pensar en ergonomía, quizá utilizar los 10 dedos a forma de boton o interrumptor...

en cuanto al sonido, concuerdo que falta, pero es cuestión de práctica e idea.

felicidades desde méxico !!

[srgz]

Inventado por miembros de mi universidad en Barcelona :)

[Nammusic]

Muy ingenioso.

Me imagino que se podria hacer algo así de manera casera con max msp.

Aunque creo que tienen la idea constructiva (de la maquina), más no una idea musical muy acabada.

[Superfilete]

muy experimental supongo que combinandolo con cajas, sintes, portatiles, debe quedar muy chulo

[silvestreherrera]

se ve increíble, pero el sonido no es para nada interesante, incluso aburre. y no me refiero al video, sino a la máquina. espero que en el futuro se pueda hacer algo más interesante con reactable.

[piscue]

hay alguna parte del video que si suena a música :D. es mas al final... creo que todo es falta de practica y/o imaginación

[jjrbaggio]

Yo creo que se pueden hacer cosas muy interesantes, pero con algunos acompañamientos, debe ser dificil hacer cambios rapidos con esas piezas a menos que sean muchas manos muy bien coordinadas entre si, gracias por el video =)

[der8lub]

soon - rioche and me have our own amazing table :D

[robafoco]

no se ve bien ni se oye bien :(

[piscue]

ya es debido a que mi cámara no es muy profesional... la calidad no es excepcional.

[robafoco]

buena onda igual chabon .

gracias ;)

[rudocurtir]

Remembers me the Dharma videos music...