“Phase is a sound generation system, bringing sound immersion, haptic response movement and visual immersion into play. The proposed musical demonstration (an interactive installation for science and technology museums, theme parks…) has two goals: firstly, to enable users to discover and learn about sound space and music, thanks to their immersion in visual, sound, and […]

I recently reported that Tenori-On will launch in the UK in various record shops & the launch event. Rupert has posted the following on the Last.fm group
“Ok, wait for it: £599 uk pounds with free shipping…
The reason they are this price is because they are almost hand made at the moment in Japan, they […]

I hinted at it in the previous post, but Tenori-On, the fantastic instrument by Toshio Iwai and Yamaha, will be launching in the UK. This September, Yamaha will showcasing this brand new and visually stunning interactive live performance instrument through a selection of carefully selected record shops across the country.
Tenori-On has been at many […]

With all of these new interfaces for musical expression that have been around now, I started taking a peak at the scores the players use in their performance. Whilst I am not personally involved in research in this area, I thought it might be interesting to someone out there who is (plus I’ve not […]

If you go down to the South Bank in London this summer, outside the Royal Festival Hall is a wonderful installation titled PLAY.Orchestra.
56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker. Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to […]

I was watching a Siggraph 2005 video and 1 min 45 seconds in, they show an early prototype video of Tenori-On, a whole 10 seconds of it :) Possibly interesting to anyone who has been following the development. Watch here.
More Tenori-On: Toshio Iwai keynote at Futuresonic, Deeper into Tenori-On.

[update1 - Jimmi got in touch and has posted his video on YouTube in five parts -> one, two, three, four, five]

I’ve had the pleasure and honor of seeing Toshio Iwai do the keynote lecture at Futuresonic 2006. As an inspiration for many years, having only read about his previous work and seen static images, […]

In Looperdooper, Tiago Borges da Silva took apart a childs toy keyboard and wired each key to an external circuit board containing a microphone and speaker. You can then record sounds on to each individual board. When using the keyboard the corresponding boards are triggered and the recorded sounds are played back.
Other instruments by […]

Onetonnemusic informs us that Toshio Iwai now has a Tenori-On development blog : tenorion.blogspot.com. Hurrah.

For anyone who doesn’t know what Tenori-On from Toshio Iwai is, first read about it on wmmna (then on CDM, Musicthing and Siggraph).
Then watch this video & see some photos. This is a great physical soundtoy and I am pleased that Yamaha got on board with this one.
Following the Nime conference, more details have […]

Six String Sonics is the (work in progress I believe) creation of Gil Kuno. This project sets out to reinvent the guitar. “Instead of stringing one guitar with 6 strings, we have created 6 single string guitars which will be played by 6 people. Since there will be 6 hands manning the strings, the […]