Sunday, March 23, 2008

Forum Week 1


THE REACTABLE!!! Wow. I remember last year being told about this, but i never really took any notice of it, but after hearing one of the programmers talking about it, it sparked my interest. There are so many unexplored ways of creating music that this instrument allows for. The most exciting of which is playing an instrument communally. More than one person can play this instrument at one time, in fact you could have 10 people playing this. The other revelation is the amount of immediate and creative control that you have, you aren't limited by a mouse or controller wheel of finite accessibility. If you want more simply add it. (the key word being simply)






The other presentations didn't really interest me much, but it did give me an insight into collaboration. Scoot wasn't only a collaboration between the programmers, visual artists, project managers and the museums (places of interest) etc. but also the people partaking in the exercise. This fine balance is a hard thing to achieve and i think scoot has successfully done this.





4 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Freddie said...

"There are so many unexplored ways of creating music that this instrument allows for."

It's a pity the end result of all electro music sounds the same. I remain unimpressed.

Tristan Louth-Robins said...

You need to start prying those ears open Freddie..

Freddie said...

lol