Monday, April 30, 2007

Björk introduced this really amazing new electronic instrument called a reactable on SNL last week as well as at Coachella. Check out this video to see why it's really amazing. It reminds me of some sort of alien interface. via bOINGbOING

2 comments:

Steph said...

Very interesting - definitely something straight out of science fiction. Is any of this actually approaching MUSIC, though? All the videos I saw were just a collection of disjointed sounds. I would love to hear what this could do, music-wise... Only seems a neat way to explore sounds for now.

Steph said...

Also, it's worth mentioning that if this is actually a musical instrument, this is probably the first new instrument (certainly that I know of) that is totally new in the last several hundred years. Everything else has been a derivative of one that was in use before (electric guitar, keyboard, etc.).