Reactable

What is a reactable and what is the picture of such a strange device doing on this blog ? Well we tend to forget that the brain is a multisensory integration organ and sometimes that can go off track as in shizophrenia (cfr studies of John Foxe). You can listen to music but maybe it is a much more interesting idea to simultaneously look at it (taste it ?? ), even touch it , feel it, use it, manipulate its components and see , hear and feel the real time effects interactively and immediately. That is what i call "playing" music. That is also what these wonderfully intelligent and creative wizzards of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona have managed to do very succesfully. It's is not only nice as a musical experience but for signal analysis buffs it lets You interactively experience, see and feel the effects of filters, sound generators, output filters , waveforms and later perhaps FFT displays ... links toBCI pop in mind. The components are 3D manipulative bbuilding blocks. It's like 3D mathlab simulink adding the spatial dimension. Experience part of it at Youtube. Seeing is better then reading.... Kudo's to these guys in Barcelona and thanks very specifically for mentioning this discovery link to me, to my wonderfull friend Mr Jose Pablo dela Torre, former exchange student and now a manager of a rock band called DRAW. Rock fans click here..