Luis Fernando Odiaga [IaaC]

The reacTable —developed within the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain by Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso, 2006— can be understood as the easiest way of making electronic music, also as the DIGITAL Instrument par excellence, left behind are the turn-tables and the synthesizers because this instrument is in fact a mix of its predecessors that goes forward-beyond them. Using only the hearing-sense is possible to make wonderful things but to involve the other senses in the actual performance of music with the freedom of the digital copy/paste faculty develops an age-coherent way of playing music. From now on, playing music will not only be about the dexterity on playing the instrument, neither the knowledge about musical composition-matters, with the reacTable the doors to a new way of sound-experience are open, furthermore the relation with the instrument is not only on how it sounds, but how this sounds look like while being produced; interchanging built-up music-pieces with the use of the tangibles —little boxes, freely placed over the reacTable, which let the user work with sequences, modulate Audio frequency VCOs, LFOs, VCFs.— Music can be played as always, but with the appropriate aid that technology can bring this days.

The design of the instrument is so open that is possible to ad-new tangibles on need. Björk is using the reacTable on her world tour VOLTA, and for sure there are some tangibles added. The richness of the work of such an oudio-designer brings-up wide lights of the limitless possibilities of this digital-instrument.

Björk´s “declare independence” on Jools Holland´s Later

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