\u2018Stepping Out of the Slate\u2019 is the name of the Yamaha Design Laboratory\u2019s new experiment in bringing physical shape to sound. The Japanese multinational has a hand in many industries, but it started off making organs and pianos at the tail-end of the 19th century. Modern audiences will be familiar...
Yamaha Design Laboratory explores the potential for app-driven music creation and playback with a collection of four conceptual devices to enhance the audio experience‘Stepping Out of the Slate’ is the name of the Yamaha Design Laboratory’s new experiment in bringing physical shape to sound. The Japanese multinational has a hand in many industries, but it started off making organs and pianos at the tail-end of the 19th century.
For this project, the team wanted to break out of the confines of the standard smartphone music app, typically a streaming service that does away with almost all physical connections between music and our ears. ‘We believe there is still a longing for more substantive and tactile interaction that cannot be achieved with touch panel operation,’ the team writes.
Applying the essential tactile qualities of musical instruments and audio equipment, the designers were looking for ways of conveying ‘joy, beauty, discovery, and confidence’ through simple, almost low-tech means. The result is a suite of four physical devices, minimal objects pared back to the physical presences they have lost through their translation into an app.
The functional prototypes include TurnT, a virtual turntable, Winder, a minimal music box, MusicLight, an interactive candle, and RhythmBot, a group of four diminutive robots that accompany musicians. Pitched at a variety of scenarios, the devices tap into a growing new fascination with simple objects that have a very focused set of smarts. Past examples include
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