Roland?s 50th Anniversary Concept Piano Keys in on Drones for Surround Sound
Roland's wild 50th anniversary concept piano includes some unique notes to its performance: surround sound drones.
Designed in collaboration with Japanese furniture maker Karimoku, the Roland 50th Anniversary Concept Piano is a study of “what if"” ? an audaciously conceived and meticulously assembled composition of Japanese Nara oak layered into a single form containing a 360-degree, 14-speaker system and with an even wilder proposition: drones for surround sound.
Roland connects the 50th Anniversary Concept Piano to a surprisingly dissimilar descendent, the brand’s sharply crystalline obsidian 2020 GPX-F1 Facet Grand Piano. While that design shares an explorative spirit, it also exhibited rectilinear lines of an almost jewel-like appearance. The 50th Anniversary Concept Piano on the other hand takes on a warmly organic rounded form, one accentuated by its Japanese Nara oak wood sourced from Hokkaido.
The musical instrument brand tapped the talents of Japanese furniture maker Karimoku to create the elliptical design with machine-cutting layers of wooden pieces that are joined together to form the body ? a methodical attempt to use ancient methods once used to build wooden Buddhist statues with contemporary 3D-printing techniques. The project itself was inspired by the forefather of classical ambient music Erik Satie’s concept of ?Furniture Music,? or music that becomes like furniture in a space. One may notice how the instrument̵...
Designed in collaboration with Japanese furniture maker Karimoku, the Roland 50th Anniversary Concept Piano is a study of “what if"” ? an audaciously conceived and meticulously assembled composition of Japanese Nara oak layered into a single form containing a 360-degree, 14-speaker system and with an even wilder proposition: drones for surround sound.
Roland connects the 50th Anniversary Concept Piano to a surprisingly dissimilar descendent, the brand’s sharply crystalline obsidian 2020 GPX-F1 Facet Grand Piano. While that design shares an explorative spirit, it also exhibited rectilinear lines of an almost jewel-like appearance. The 50th Anniversary Concept Piano on the other hand takes on a warmly organic rounded form, one accentuated by its Japanese Nara oak wood sourced from Hokkaido.
The musical instrument brand tapped the talents of Japanese furniture maker Karimoku to create the elliptical design with machine-cutting layers of wooden pieces that are joined together to form the body ? a methodical attempt to use ancient methods once used to build wooden Buddhist statues with contemporary 3D-printing techniques. The project itself was inspired by the forefather of classical ambient music Erik Satie’s concept of ?Furniture Music,? or music that becomes like furniture in a space. One may notice how the instrument̵...
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