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« SIGGRAPH—Day One | Main | The storyteller » Monday, July 31, 2006Musical intersectionsThe modern piano may be two centuries old, and the electric just a few decades, but that doesn't mean radically new instruments aren't on the horizon. At Siggraph's Intersections Art Gallery, Mitsubishi and a Spanish researcher are showing a few off. The reacTable is a disc jockey's visual dream. Developed by Sergi Jorda of Spain, it's a table that produces different beats when people place plastic blocks on its surface. Rotate them and the pitch changes. Put more on and they interact with each other producing complicated rhythmic arrangements. Mitsubishi's Electric Research Laboratory is also working on a musical instrument of its own. Think of it as a musical harp with water strings. A series of water streams flows from a top beam down into a pool. Block one of the streams and it hits a note. Different streams produce different pitches. It's part of a series of water sculptures that interact with human touch. There's a liquid touch screen and a fountain that changes shape when hands come near it. (By Kim-Mai Cutler, Globe correspondent) Posted by Kim-Mai Cutler at 11:58 AM
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