The Tenorion is an instrument designed by Toshio Iwai, the creater of Electroplankton – a game for Nintendo DS where you use animated plankton to create music. The instrument includes a sequencer with 16×16 buttons where you can manipulate pitch, lenght and loops. It also has a built in synth and sampler. The most famous artist to use this device is Little Boots.
Our second-cousin-once-removed blog, Inappropriate Bunny posted this about Little Boots and her Tenori-on a while back, and now TheNextWeb, has dug up a couple of apps that compete with the $1,000 synthesiser for less than a GBP£. Admittedly you have to have an iPhone, and it’s not going to have MIDI control or anything like it, but if you just want to twiddle around making tunes on the tube while you go to work this looks like a pretty good option.
“TuneMaker has the look and feel of an £800 Tenori On in a 59p iPhone app. What’s more it sounds really good.” – TheNextWeb
If you don’t know what a tenorion is, check this video out:
