Concepts inThe reacTable: exploring the synergy between live music performance and tabletop tangible interfaces

Concert

A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band. Concerts are held in a wide variety and size of settings, from private houses and small nightclubs, dedicated concert halls, entertainment centres and parks to large multipurpose buildings, and even sports stadiums.  more from Wikipedia

Reactable

The Reactable is an electronic musical instrument with a tabletop Tangible User Interface that has been developed within the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain by Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Günter Geiger. In the end of 2010 a mobile version of the Reactable was released for iPad, giving many opportunities to musicians for multi-touch sequencing.  more from Wikipedia

Tangible user interface

A tangible user interface (TUI) is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment. The initial name was Graspable User Interface, which no longer is used. One of the pioneers in tangible user interfaces is Hiroshi Ishii, a professor in the MIT Media Laboratory who heads the Tangible Media Group.  more from Wikipedia

Synergy

Synergy is two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. The term synergy comes from the Greek word synergia ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ from synergos, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, meaning "working together".  more from Wikipedia

Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument¿it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the beginnings of human culture. The purpose of early musical instruments was ritual: a hunter might use a trumpet to signal success on the hunt, or a shaman might use a drum in a religious ceremony.  more from Wikipedia