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

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.