A cool groove from a unique instrument. YouTuber allmyfriendsaresynths dusted off the Tenori-On for a short jam. Technically this is the “TNR-O” (“Tenori-On Orange” for the Orange LEDs) - the more affordable sibling to the original TNR-W (“Tenori-On White”).
Tenori-On is truly a piece of digital art designed by Japanese artist Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori of the Yamaha Center for Advanced Sound Technology: Music and Human Interface Group (say that three times fast!) Both models feature 256 LEDs, a custom 32 note polyphonic tone generator, 16 parts with different sequence types and visual animations. Check out the video below:
You can check out lots of fascinating creations at the Yamaha Design page here, which reminds me…Do you remember the refacerobot for reface CS!
Yamaha Synthesizer Product Specialist Blake Angelos has over thirty years of experience with music hardware and software. An expert in music technology, Blake has conducted numerous clinics, master classes and presentations throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. In his role as Product Specialist for the Synthesizer Department Blake appears in many product videos and artist interviews, writes many articles for YamahaSynth.com and co-hosts a regular Podcast called “Behind the Synth”.
Before his work with Yamaha, he taught music theory and jazz studies courses at Arizona State University; managed a technology-focused music store in Seattle and was a production supervisor at Microsoft, where he led a team that developed groundbreaking interactive music content for the Microsoft Network. Blake holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a Master of Music degree from Arizona State University. Blake currently resides in Bellingham, Washington with his family, and between his travels around the world for Yamaha, he performs as much as possible with several jazz and creative music groups in Bellingham, Seattle and other places in the Pacific Northwest.
