An Update on Tim Thompson’s Space Palette Kinect-Based Instrument Including Video from STEIM

Modulate This! – Synth Tech & Technique Artilcles by Mark Mosher

April 29, 2012

(Modulate This), Contollerism, kinect, Space Palette, Tim Thompson

burning man, kinect instrument, mutli-mutli-touch-touch, spatial interfaces. controllerism, steim, tangible interfaces

I first met Tim Thompson last Spring when I performed in Sunnyvale. He invited me over for an An “Exclusive First Look at Tim Thompson's Kinect-Based Instrument: MultiMultiTouchTouch”. Since then we’ve kept in touch and he’s made incredible progress on this three-dimensional instrument so I thought I'd do an update post.

Now called Space Palette, it offers more windows of control and expressiveness and also has interactive visuals that react to gestures. Space Palette’s design makes it a fantastic casual instrument allowing for walk-up players. Tim has been spreading electronic musical joy by bringing it to events such as:

February 2012 Guthman Atlanta: video
December 2011 Dorkbot SF: Here's the slides, here's some pictures, and here's some video
October 2011 Y2K+1 LoopFest in Santa Cruz: video
October 2011 Decompression in San Francisco: video
September 2011 Burning Man: video
More here…

I got to play an updated version of Space Palette when Tim and I were in Atlanta in February. It’s expressive enough to scale beyond casual play and Tim has become quite a virtuoso with it as can be seen in his latest performance at STEIM in Amsterdam below.

Watch embedded video.

I encourage you to visit http://spacepalette.com and http://timthompson.com/ to follow Tim’s progress.

Mark Mosher
Electronic Music Artist, Boulder, CO
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Hi, this is Mark Mosher. Welcome to my blog. I’m a synthesist, Composer, Producer, and Visualist living in Boulder CO. I’m also the founder of the Rocky Mountain Synth Meet and Synth Patrol.

I’ve been blogging wince 2005 and this blog is a mix of posts on artistic news as well as synth tech & technique posts under the category Modulate This!

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