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This design exists in the form of the more complex Yamaha Tenori-on, which was featured by Four Tet in There Is Love In You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2
by mellowdream 6y ago
This design exists in the form of the more complex Yamaha Tenori-on, which was featured by Four Tet in There Is Love In You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20ukzn_rsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20ukzn_rsw
It's also expensive, now 500 USD on eBay - so it's nice to see a version of the product getting put together on the web :)
- JansjoFromIkea 6y agoI'm sure you and the creator know of this already, but the guy who designed the Tenori-on also made the Nintendo DS game Elektroplankton. It presents such wonderful ideas for messing about with music that I'm stunned there isn't a huge scene of people things like it online these days.
- aasasd 6y agoWhich is where the design comes from. There are a bunch of software implementations, by the way. Sometimes they refer to the concept by ‘Tone Matrix’ instead.
- aasasd 6y agoP.S. (not really related): also til Tenori-On was originally promoted by Atom Heart aka Uwe Schmidt, a man of a hundred aliases and endeavors, with a particularly fun project Señor Coconut: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X-ygv1CKzAk https://youtube.com/watch?v=X-ygv1CKzAk https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzoMNOids7k https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzoMNOids7k
- glenneroo 6y ago> Tenori-on There is also a very lovely spiritual successor for VR called Soundstage VR: https://github.com/googlearchive/soundstagevr https://github.com/googlearchive/soundstagevr