Tenori-on really is about the Future of Loops
Future Loop Foundation join the list of high profile Tenori-on users
Tenori-on fever continues! As demand for this most innovative light
and sound sequencer continues to grow, the word is also out in the
artist community that this is one must-have, must-play gadget. Mark
Barrott, Future Loop Foundation’s technology-loving front man, has
been after one since launch and recently finally got his hands on one…
“It really opens your mind to new possibilities,” he says. “It’s
Steve Reich for the modern age…” And Mark knows all about new
possibilities. A decade ago he was leading the way on the drum n bass
scene before turning chillout. Last year’s ‘Album Of The Year’
Memories From A Fading Room spawned a couple of summer soundtrack
classics (appearing all over the BBC and Sky TV) and he’s currently
gearing up for a ground-breaking audio and visual spectacular tour.
It was Tenori-on’s unique way of inputting notes that excited Mark in
the first place “As a musician,” he says, “I’m always looking for
different ways to input music and from stopping my hands forming
certain note or chord patterns on a keyboard. Tenori-on is the
perfect alternative – all of a sudden you are not looking at black or
white notes and therefore thinking in a certain way. It opens up new
methods of composition and thought processes and makes you think
differently about music and what it actually is. It’s a great piece
of equipment to put you in a very creative mood very, very quickly.”
“It’s really freed up the way I think about music and what is
possible in terms of multi layering and composition,” continues Mark,“so even the idea of a Tenori-on and what it can achieve is very
liberating and creative because the days of a piano keyboard being
the main way to enter music have gone.”
“Normally with equipment you pick up the basics from playing around
with it and then consult the manual when you get stuck (always at the
most frustrating times in terms of creativity). With the Tenori-on I
actually spent 30 minutes with the manual at the beginning and have
NEVER needed to refer back to it – it’s that easy and intuitive. As a
synthesiser kid from the early 80s, I have a life long love affair
with step sequencers anyway, but in addition to the standard score
mode, I love the bouncing ball mode!”
Mark is preparing for a new Future Loop Foundation tour, starting in
April in his home town of Sheffield at the new Sensoria Festival
(sensoria). There’s a new album out on Just Music
(just music) in April called The Fading Room: Memories and
Remixes, and Mark is currently also working on a follow up to 2004’s
summer hit A Very English Summer.
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