I have been into electronic music production for 12 years now and always had a geeky tendency to dig into new technologies applied to digital music production. What I can say is that a really striking amount of innovations have always occurred in this field and the computer assisted music production industry can provide a big deal of insightful food-for-thoughts when it comes to creative and innovative ways of interacting with computers.
The senseTable reminds me another interesting project called Reactable carried out by a team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Reactable also mixes physical objects and projected elements (Although the table metaphor is used in this case). It's worth the look. Another interesting project with a more arty appeal is the Manual Imput Sessions combining custom interactive software, analog overhead projectors and digital computer video projectors. The hand gestures and transparency drawings are analysed by a software that in response generates synthetic graphics and sounds, tightly coupled to the performers actions. Finally the very creative and forwardthinking firm JazzMutant have long ago proposed multi-touch screen products that have nothing to envy to the iPhone. It consist of a touchscreen musical interface completely reconfigurable to suit every specific interaction needs of the music producers and live-performers. With regards to your concern about the next step:"physical knobs automatically reconfigure when you switch applications". I may say that musical devices already integrated motorized knobs and sliders that can instantly reconfigure to fit presets or different pre-programmed configurations. Considering the fact that innovations are mainly about "re-configurating", "mixing" and "remixing" existing technologies, I can say with a certain level of confidence that conceptually, such affordance already exists and only needs to be creatively implemented. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31507 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
