Sounds-Expo 2007: Yamaha Tenori-on

Once in a Blue Moon an invention comes along which seems to turn conventional wisdom upside-down and kick it around a bit for good measure. But I think it's fair to say that most bright new ideas never see the light of day

But at Sounds-Expo 2007 I spotted a experimental 'prototype' musical instrument project from Yamaha called the Tenori-on, a device which has interactive.. involving lights and buttons, but the fact it is going into production is still pretty impressive!

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Its a device thats the brainchild of media artist Toshio Iwai, it consists of a hand-held square panel with a matrix of LED switches. Working with both sound and light, making music becomes a rather more intuitive and immediate interaction between player and instrument - a refreshing counter to the increasing complexity of many modern music tools.

But what's it actually like? Well, I interviewed Peter Peck of Yamaha UK who was clutching the only example currently in the whole of Europe, who told us all about it!

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The Tenori-On should be shipping later this year, but if you want to find out more about it, there's plenty more info on the web - Yamaha have a site, and Toshio Iwai has a blog:-

http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on

http://www.tenorion.blogspot.com

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Reported by: Sam Downie, for DailyTechTalk.com
From: Sounds-Expo 2007, Olympia 2, London
Sounds-Expo 2007 Website: http://www.sounds-expo.co.uk
Date: March 2007

Info on Sam Downie: http://www.dsoundz.co.uk