The Tenori-on launch in Berlin. The Tenori-on was designed by Toshio Iwai & Yamaha in Japan. Toshio is a visual artist and has spent most of his life finding ways to make music accessible to people in visual languages. Toshio was inspired by a hand-cranked musical box which payed the song happy birthday. The box works by running a punch card through it. He played the tune at the launch and then turned the card around and played it in reverse. He began to question the holes in the punch card and asked which way was the top and which was the bottom? He transcribed the visual element of one musical device into another. I’m interested in using the Tenori-on “punch card” patterns to run through a knitting machine to create knitted musical visuals, also to see whether you could link a Tenori-on to a computer that would knit the patterns in real time as you created the music.
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