Gadgetory

the Verge's partnering with this year's inaugural panorama music festival in new york city and we're going to be hosting the lab an incredible interactive art space running all weekend long we spoke to read paper heart a design collective that has work in this year's space their piece is called pinball performance I am Sandra Brenda join and I'm the creative director my name is Daniel tribal and I'm the technical director my name is Lisa Walters and i'm the senior producer at red paper heart we're bringing a project called pinball performance it's taking a 1970s era pinball machine and connecting that to a digital art this will allow people playing the pinball machine to become performers so as they play they're going to be creating these kind of like larger-than-life animations and by doing so they're going to be sort of like a concert pianist or something it'll start with people putting a quarter into the Machine and that will light up an array of screen so we have eight monitors they're all hung around the n-bomb machine as you play the various things that you hit will trigger these satisfying little animations that they kind of play off how the tactile and just satisfying pings and rotating bits in a pinball machine there's just something really gratifying about those reactions Cesar started talking about pinball about how he was looking to do something with our kids and where did they all go and then one ball came around as to how can we reinvent this how can we make it magic again and so that kind of started the journey of finding the perfect Ramona sheen so to find an original one where everything is electrical all the connections the scoring is even just rotating disks it's really nice to have this really old machine but then connected to kind of like the newest technology with a really creative code I think that things like pinball get people over the seriousness of artwork and people have like this connection with things like pinball people love involved so they instantly have an emotional attachment to it don't have to explain anyone how to use a pinball machine but yet they have a completely new experience with that old game