What Will Tomorrow's User Interface Look Like? (Musical Edition)
03:07 PM Dec 09, 2006
User interfaces are hardly limited to personal computers: even by a restrictive definition, they're ubiquitous around us from ballpoint pens to stick shifts.
Here, for instance, are some user interfaces for generating music through the vibration of strings:
... and here, for turning the motion of air to a like purpose:
... and here, an interface common (to an extent) to both:
It has ever been the business of music to avail itself of new technologies. Small wonder that many such start from the familiar means to generate music, and the familiar interfaces:
But technology can also open unthought-of new channels for a person to relate to his or her creative output ... and entire new ways to create. For instance, the omnichord:
... the theremin:
... and the reacTable:
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Made me think of Robbie Dingo's work
Beth —
The interface to musicial intruments createdin a 3d virtual wordhttp://digitaldouble.blogspot.com/