7 Days Microsleep
Wednesday October 17th 2007

7 Days Microsleep This is the world’s first Tenori-On album.

Blurred, Calm and Orange (6:22)
LA Geisha (4:45)
The Glam Machines Arrive (4:38)
Microsleep (4:42)
Cash Flow (4:22)
The Freedom Loop (4:24)
Slow Motion (2:00)
Bonus: A Spooner Figure (4:16)

This is a free release. If you like it, please donate!
Paypal to nf@normanfairbanks.com. Thank you.

Other Tenori-On recordings:
Living Near The Valley
American Optimism
L.A. Machine


20 Comments so far
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Beautiful stuff. Up til now I thought the Tenori-On was a great toy but no good music would come out of it. Nice to be proved wrong.

Comment by Tony M 05.14.08 @ 11:22 pm
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Nice work! I particularly like LA Geisha, and Slow Motion

Comment by Meta4k 05.15.08 @ 4:04 am
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The bonus song was a great help for us beginning Tenori-on owners. Please consider releasing additional native format files from this great album!

Comment by Steve N. 05.16.08 @ 8:41 pm
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A bunch of TO song files plus sample banks will be released in the next couple of days, either through this blog or through the global Yamaha website. Stay tuned!

Comment by admin 05.16.08 @ 11:22 pm
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i enjoyed all the tracks, thanks for sharing.

great subtle use of the panpot function on freedom loop.

Comment by matt b 05.19.08 @ 9:27 pm
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Very beautiful stuff, currently listening to LA Geisha (haven’t made it through the whole thing yet). Listening to great Tenori-on music like this reminds me of how much i despise not having any money lol

Comment by scott flavin 05.22.08 @ 3:45 am
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Yeah, really sounds good. Now I know what is Tenori-On for.

Comment by mendaka 06.11.08 @ 1:55 pm
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Great. Thank you. Makes me think about using the tenori-on in multimedia productions.

Comment by albographic 06.14.08 @ 10:21 am
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wunderfur

Comment by gigadrone 06.19.08 @ 11:32 pm
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Great ideas in there. Thanks for sharing all this.

Comment by Sylvain Guehl 09.07.08 @ 4:13 pm
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What an amazing dept your music produces… Very, Very inspiring.

Comment by jean-Louis Denis 10.10.08 @ 10:43 pm
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Hi norman,please give us some good news, do you know if yamaha is going to upgrade the tenori on firmware?
Your music is great.
Have look what people have to say and let Toshio Know about it:
http://www.tenori-onusa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=196&sid=87adb25800cfb76d14095ad1ccdb6354
THANK YOU

Comment by cosimo 10.25.08 @ 1:45 pm
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Excellent stuff - just when all the material out there starts to make the tenori-on sound samey this is a breath of fresh air.
Props for “LA Geisha” and “A Spooner Figure”

Everyone, keep tenori alive: http://www.tenori-onusa.com/forum/

Comment by Jimmy R 11.19.08 @ 4:35 pm
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Norman,
the track “The glam machines arrive” is the one I like most from your TO-Album “7days microsleep”!
Could you give some comments on how it was done in the “love your TO” section?
Thanks in advance
Andreas from Germany
(I ordered my first TO today …)

Comment by Andreas 11.26.08 @ 8:51 pm
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Vraiment très étrange comme son mais aussi très interressant. Ca fait du bien de trouver une minimale qui ne ressemble pas à ce dont on nous abreuve en ce moment pa chez moi
The freedom loop est vraiment exeptionnel

Comment by françois 02.03.09 @ 4:57 pm
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Lovely music! Didn’t realise the tenori-on was so flexible.

Comment by Marra 03.28.09 @ 2:24 am
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this is very inspirational work, the subtle tones of the TO always make me happy…

how do you download the album? i am keen to listen to the whole thing….

Comment by Chicco 04.29.09 @ 12:15 pm
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Very nice and soothing in a Steve Reich-y soft of way.

Comment by enigmafon records 06.02.09 @ 2:28 am
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Lovely music.
You have inspired me to produce my own T-O music (”7 Days Microsleep” was the first T-O music I heard) And now I’ve started my own project writing one song each week for 2010.
Thanks for leading the way and showing the world that the Tenori-On is a real instrument and not just an expensive toy.

Comment by DJ-DJS 01.18.10 @ 2:20 am
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Thank you very much for your nice words. I hope you enjoy your project and working with the TO as much as I (still) do.

Comment by admin 01.18.10 @ 2:11 pm
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