Last weekend i went to the ElettroWave Festival to have a look to the BIP – building interactive plagrounds, by NADA and in collaboration with ArsNova.
Situated at the beginning of a industrial pavillion there’re many interesting installation: Zygote – Interactive Ball by Alex Beim, a flying ball that change colors when touched, the Laughing Swings by Rinotchild (Michal Rinott & Michal Rothschild), two swings that the more swings the more laugh, an interface, developed at the Touchdown Workshop, that works as a drinking race inside a videogame , Moving Forward by QOOBtv and iRagazzidellaPrateria, a table to realize real time stop motion animation, ReacTable by Interactive Sonic Systems team, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a wonderful digital musical instrument/interface and VIP, Virtual Ideinty Process by the Master in Digital Environment Design, NABA, that is an interactive table that generates audiovisuals.
You can see all of them in the video that speaks better than any word.
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The audience was quite interested and it’s quite difficult usually to involve people with interactive installation inside a musical festival, particularly at night. It was the invisibility of the computer to let people enter into the dimension of each of the installations, no manuals, no instructins, each piece was really transparent and easy to access.
Two words about ReactAble: i met Carlos, the musician of the group that developed this instrument and he instroduced to us tthe tool showing us its potentiality in a quick and dirty demo with two other people ( one of them is the boyguard that liked it so much to play it..:)
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About Elettrowave the setting was really nice, inside a big industrial pavillion, with three stages with many names like Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu, Zip, Matthew Dear’s Big Hands, Cassius, Davide Squillace, Hugo, DJ Raresh, Modeselektor but most of all i appreciate the good mood of the people involved from the bodyguard to the people at the bars, from Dino Lupelli to all the musicians involved that played really good motivated.
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