ReacTable Performance

Performance using the ReacTable at Mills College on November 21st 2008. Performers: Christopher M. Skebo - trumpet and ReacTable, Chris Brasseur - ReacTable, Luigi Marino - ReacTable. Recorded live at the Mills Art Museum.

***This recording is from the overhead cam and is not as good audio quality as the recording from the room. For a better audio only version visit http://www.myspace.com/chrisskebo
I hope to have a better edited version up soon.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Reactable
• Mills
• College
• Trumpet
• Christopher
• M.
• Skebo

[sanpaco13]

It would be nice if someone would use one of these to actually make some decent music instead of just a bunch of random crappy noise.

[sgcustomfan]

@sanpaco13 While I do appreciate your insight, I will say that this is a very interesting instrument to use because there really are only three practical uses for it (as far as I am concerned). The first is creating very predictable sequenced music, because of the loop and sequencing objects this is very easy to do. The second is using samples of your own (which have to fit into a very specific parameter in order to play correctly, within a millisecond).

[sgcustomfan]

@sanpaco13 The third as a tool for improvisation (which is the course of action that I took). Since I do not regularly work in the field of electronic music I found this to be the most advantageous way for me to get the most out of the table while I had it in possession for experimentation and rehearsals. Thank you for your comment.

[shamanorak]

what does it take to blow up your reactable??

nice!!

[sgcustomfan]

at 5:44 in the video, there is a second where the table just goes silent for a split-second and I was really worried that it was going to crash then. I found the way to get it to crash is to use the filter on the global delay, for some reason the table doesn't like that.

[Hornetization]

where can i order 1?

[daileyvideos]

SO COOL! HOw do I make one?

[Airwolf93]

sound like some kind of weird ambiemt music to me :D but i like it :)

and especially the table itself is an interesting way of making music...

[RobinParmarSound]

I appreciate your attempt to do something non-pattern oriented with this interface!

[zac856314]

CFW????

[MrMasticater]

@sgcustomfan so like how do you put your own sounds into the cubes or watever they are called? and how would u get it exact to the millisecond?

[daveeroberts1990]

@sgcustomfan you forgot the fourth use.

A Table.

[55weedman]

it sounds like a bee having sex with a horse then made a fucking baby and that baby fucked a eliphant and had another fucken baby?! WTF?! MATE?

[1saac19]

@sanpaco13 Watch bjork using this and you will not hear crappy noise.

[purebokety]

@sanpaco13 isnt it great that someone used this to make random noise instead of crappy music