[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 [...]