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 Posted: Thu, 27th Jul 2006 12:46 Post subject: Electroplankton inventor creates new musical instrument |
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Now the creator of Electroplankton, Toshio Iwai, has a new handheld electronic instrument for Yamaha called the Tenori-On. It's beautiful looking.
Toshio Iwai Currently in the prototype phase, it consists of a 16 by 16 grid of LED buttons within a square aluminium frame about the same size as a lightpen tablet, and also contains two in-built speakers.
Holding this frame in one hand, Iwai demonstrated how the Tenori-On worked during the opening evening of last weekend's Futuresonic electronic musical festival in Manchester.
Each of Tenori-On's LED buttons can either be lightly strummed, sort of like a harp, or alternatively pressed down, whereby each button lights up. Musical notes are triggered by a regular line of light that moves from left to right, much like the sweeping line in PSP game Lumines.
links: http://tenorion.blogspot.com/
http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/24/electroplankton_inve.html
looks and sounds very interesting.........
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