The Reactogon chain reactive performance arpeggiator is a unique musical synthesizer that uses small tokens placed on a hexagonal board to create music.
The tokens have different characteristics; some provide more than one direction for the arpeggianation (if that's a word) to proceed. Others provide stops. Musical sequences can be created using artfully placed disks. Take a look at (and a listen to) the Reactogon video below.
The Reactogon synthesizer reminded me of another tabletop music inteface. Reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music synthesizer with a unique tabletop interface. Performers (like maybe you) control the instrument by placing objects on the table and moving them around. Check out the demo below, and turn your sound up a little.
I love science fiction instruments; take a look at the Smule ocarina, which you can download on your iPhone. See also the literary instruments like stimic from Jack Vance's classic 1976 story The Moon Moth and the incredible Krang from Alan Dean Foster's 1972 novel The Tar-Aiym Krang.
Gaia - Why Stop With Just The Earth?
'But the stars are only atoms in larger space, and in that larger space the star-atoms could combine to form living matter, thinking matter, couldn't they?' - Robert Castle, 1939.
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Gaia - Why Stop With Just The Earth?
'But the stars are only atoms in larger space, and in that larger space the star-atoms could combine to form living matter, thinking matter, couldn't they?'
Microsoft VASA-1 Creates Personal Video From A Photo
'...to build up a video picture would require, say, ten million decisions every second. Mike, you're so fast I can't even think about it. But you aren't that fast.'