wow, i just found this video of a (at least to me) new device. it’s called a ‘reactable’ and is a musical instrument based on modular synthesis. last year i would have watched this video and thought something like: ‘yeah, that’s cool – so what’. but since i spent quite some time with reason, reading different books about it and even got into synthesizer programming (i never would have thought of that before…), i fell in love with this video right there on the spot because it explains it just great. you wouldn’t even need the talking of those two guys, seeing the different pieces and the various waves, pulses, radars etc. the table shows pretty much explains itself. that’s exactly the kind of device we’d need in our schools! and not just for music – for everything! seeing what it does in such an easy way and being able to touch it, play with it, mess around with it is one hell of a way to learn something….