Dynamic patches for live musical performance

  • Authors:
  • Martin Kaltenbrunner;Günter Geiger;Sergi Jordà

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This article reflects the current state of the reacTable project, an electronic music instrument with a tangible table-based interface, which is currently under development at the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In this paper we are focussing on the issue of Dynamic Patching, which is a particular and unique aspect of the sound synthesis and control paradigms of the reacTable. Unlike common visual programming languages for sound synthesis, which conceptually separate the patch building process from the actual musical performance, the reacTable combines the construction and playing of the instrument in a unique way. The tangible interface allows direct manipulation control over any of the used building blocks, which physically represent the whole synthesizer function.