hardware

SenseSurface: Knobs on the Screen?

I was pointed out to this funny concept called SenseSurface by Fred Beecher.
The main idea is to attach physical controls such as knobs magnetically to an LCD screen, Thanks to a magnetic overlay attached behind the screen. The system is able to senses the knobs position and send the information to a particular [...]

Music Software, hardware, interaction design, technologies

Manual Input Sessions.

I descovered recently this interesting concept by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman about a musical concept using hand gestures and figers movements in a audiovisual.

Our concert is performed on a combination of custom interactive software, analog overhead projectors and digital computer video projectors. The analog and digital projectors are aligned such that their projections overlap, [...]

Electronic-Music, Music Software, hardware, technologies

Reactable

That is the kind of research I always wanted to do, the intersection of all my principal interests (i.e. human computer interaction, innovative tangible interfaces, electronic music).

The The reacTable is an electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop Tangible User Interface that has been developed within the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in [...]

Electronic-Music, hardware, technologies