Institut FATIMA - investigation project reacTIVision

Youtube Description - Institut FATIMA, 2 german musicians paul and carsten living in Barcelona. They connected a open source tracking software called reactivision with their music making program and found out, that for musicians and performers a distance to the computers can be in many ways usefull for their performances.
why tableless and screenless?
they are very sensible of the Email Checker Syndrom: electronic laptop musicians look conspicuously often like checking their email when they are performing their music on stage. standing upright beside their instruments allows them as musicians and performers to communicate more with their audience. with a tableinstrument or a screen they are still suffering with the "ECS", because the eyes are focusing downwards to the applications. for this reasons Institut FATIMA is using a very easy and cheap way with a webcam and some paper cards which allows them to dance, perfom and control or not control music simultaneusly, wireless, without any cable barriers.
they implemented it in their shows and will let you soon play with their "magic" cards.
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