Thursday, August 9, 2007

The future of synthesis?

Is THIS the future of synthesis? This Wired article shows a new, not yet commercially available, tabletop synthesizer that creates sounds based on the user placing the elements of the synthesizer as blocks on the table. Bjork borrowed one from the creators to take out on her current tour. I find this fascinating, and truly grounbreaking, combining the promise of multi-touch and tabletop computing with a pre-existing technology, the synthesizer. Check it out...

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