Hopefully you know the Reactable as they have been setting the bench-mark for tangible musical interfaces or years, with many people using their fiducial reacTivision tracking system.
Now the team in Barcelona have turned their research product into a limited run portable consumer item, aimed at musicians who want to use this live, aptly named Reactable [...]

The Youth Music Box, designed by Silent Studios & I, has now moved to the next leg of the UK tour to Bristol.
It will be on at Colston Hall, Bristol until 18th October. Go and have a play if you are in the area.
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We are very pleased to announce the Youth Music Box, currently on show at the Royal Festival Hall London until 31st August.
“Youth Music Box is a free, interactive musical experience, allowing you to create your own unique track and video using cutting edge technology, all in under 10 minutes!”
Design & Implementation by Silent [...]

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On Saturday I went to see Daft Punk headlining at the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park London. Why do I blog this? The live show is simply stunning, an audio visual treat.
We were extremely squashed in down the very front, eagerly anticipating the curtain to be drawn back. After about 30 [...]

As mentioned in a previous post, the documentation of my work at Moving Brands is now online.
An audio responsive installation for the launch of Muon, new speakers from Kef and Ross Lovegrove. Launched at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Leonardo da Vinci), during Salone del Mobile in Milan.
Created in Processing for a [...]

If you are in Milan for the Salone del Mobile, be sure to put a visit to this on your schedule…
The launch of Muon, an incredible two-metre tall speaker system, in one of the most fascinating locations in Milan, the Sala del Cenacolo. This exhibition is the extraordinary result of the convergence of two masters. [...]

[Update] here are some photos of the first event.

I am off to Liverpool to take part in the first event in the Future of Sound tour. Owen LLoyd and myself are collaborating on an interactive spatial soundscape, and today I will show the first stage prototype of this. More details about this project in [...]

[updated] here is a video

(photos above by John Adrian)
On Friday night I went to the opening of Volume at the V&A Museum, part of the Playstation Season of Culture. Here are my photos.
Created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and [...]