tunequest

So........... anyone got ~$1200 to send my way? Why, you ask? This thing: TENORI-ON, the new seemingly brilliant and addictively fun musical composition device from Yamaha. TENORI-ON means "sound on your palm" in Japanese. That's a pretty fitting description of how it works. While pressing LED buttons on the 16 x 16 grid as the loop indicator scrolls, players can create tones and rhythms, with each layer of music having its own ...

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i said yesterday that i'm convinced that jim o'rourke is a musical genius. at the time i was simply talking about his compositions. but i spun through his 2001 album insignificance today and i submit that the same applies to his lyrics as well. see this site for a full list (plus discography and other extras. it can be slow loading), but i like these lines in particular: Listening ...

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First off today, Jim O'rourke's i'm happy, and i'm singing, and a 1, 2, 3 , 4, which consists of precisely three songs of significant length, one for each of the phrases in the album title. O'rourke is a musical genius and I'm convinced that if he had lived 100 years ago he would have been a master composer. This album is a bit of departure for him. Principally known ...

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