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Monday, January 16, 2006

Toshio Iwai Videos and the origin of Electroplankton

Update3: Demo of SimTunes put up by thewhiteline: http://www.twofloorsrecords.com/uploaded

Update2: Via the comments of this post:
"Toshio Iwai also made a game back in 1996 for the PC called SimTunes
http://ns05.iamas.ac.jp/~iwai/ [Toshio Iwai's website]
If you google you'll find a demo to download"

Note the dates of the exhibits on his website. The piano piece was done in 1995.

Update1: Looks like the orders of the videos changed.
Click here for the one that mentions Electroplankton.
Click here for a crazy one that plays the piano via light.
Click here for the list including the Tenori-On and some interesting related videos.

Title link takes you videos of Toshio Iwai demoing his work including the Tenori-On and what he states to be the origin of his Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS. Make sure to check out the second video in entirety and listen carefully. You can hear him state, "these thoughts, um installations are kind of the origin of Electroplankton." It's amazing to see the interface and design on this scale. Brilliant stuff. Via the comments section of this post. Thanks to whoever took the time to post this.

3 comments:

  1. Where can I get one? :oP

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  2. Toshio Iwai also made a game back in 1996 for the PC called SimTunes

    http://ns05.iamas.ac.jp/~iwai/

    If you google you'll find a demo to download

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  3. matrix, an addition to my 2nd comment. i've put the demo on my website: http://www.twofloorsrecords.com/uploaded

    it'll run in winxp after installing: right-click the exe, select compatibility, choose windows 95 and 256 colours.

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