FREE ReacTable Concert Wed. 5/15 in NYC – Play a ReacTable Yourself at Harvestworks

Opportunities like this don’t come along every day.

Tonight, Wednesday May 15th, at 7 PM, may be your best chance to get up close and personal with the revolutionary electronic instrument ReacTable, via a FREE concert at NYC non-profit digital arts center Harvestworks.

The evening’s show is presented by Davic Nod from Barcelona: “(ReacTable): Imagining the Future.” Not only will the audience get to see and hear the ReacTable, which is a round tabletop instrument controlled by placing blocks on the table and interfacing with the touch screen’s visual display, but they will be able to participate in the performance.

Don’t just watch Davic Nod run the ReacTable — join him at tonight’s free Harvestworks show.

Personally, we’re fascinated. The interactive show takes place at Harvestworks’ HQ, 596 Broadway #602. Here’s more information, direct from Harvestworks:

Things become real when we can imagine them. What is new comes from our minds, from our imagination. This is what Davic Nod wants to transmit with Imagining the Future. To demonstrate his convictions he devised a piece joining different futurist visions, old and new, so that we must get to reflect on how things are created.

Some years after Luigi Russolo’s manifest in 1913 – The Art of Noise – we can find all sort of noisy sounds tagged on the Net with the same names Russolo provided for a futurist classification of sounds, in contrast to the classification for the conventional orchestra. This is possible thanks to some visionary thinkers like Creative Commons and Freesound, whose importance in this work is worth mentioning.

Imagine the Future is a composition around various sounds downloaded from Freesound and adapted to play them live in the Reactable, alongside synthetic soundscapes designed by Davic Nod.

A futurist live set conceived to arouse audience creativity through their participation in the performance after a little demonstration. The work is presented with the Reactable instrument, a stunning concept that keeps blowing people’s minds, to illustrate one more time the power of imagination.

For more information on Davic Nod and “(ReacTable): Imagining the Future”, visit the Harvestworks Website.

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