Lovely work by Pablo Alfieri whose portfolio site is dubbed Playful – a name I can thoroughly relate to (and was thinking of using myself – bah!). Many of his posters and images are physical set-ups, much like the work in the book Tangible: High Touch Visuals.
I’ll have to ask him to do one for Playpen.
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This BeatBearing project on YouTube by Peter Bennett is one of those physical interaction ideas that sounded great on paper, but is a bit useless in the flesh.
It’s a “tangible sequencer” but because it has so few slots, the actual rhythms you can produce are pretty clunky early 80s action (which is now old skool twice over – he’ll have to wait for the third 80s revival).
I’m sure it was a great exercise to build it, but it’s kind of what happens when you do a PhD and lose the joy and play. I’d prefer a Tenori-On personally.
Sometimes you have to love the Wisdom of YouTube, This comment caught my eye:
bl4h1: we just spent hundreds of years evolving away from this sort of thing. whats next actual instruments?
(Link via Matt at Kiel’s Foundlings)
[tags]interaction, sound, instruments, youtube, tangible[/tags]
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