Otocky

オトッキー

1987

Commercial video game for Nintendo Disk System. This is the first attempt of musical shooting video game as well as a music composing software on Famicom.

Music Insects

ミュージック・インセクト

1990 / 1992

Musical drawing software / Toshio Iwai created an exhibit as an artist in residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco in 1992.

*The work at the Exploratorium is not displayed.

Sound Fantasy

サウンドファンタジー

1994

Toshio Iwai created a commercial music game software for Super Famicom / Nintendo which is based on his Muisc Insects but never released. The story behind this software is in the wonderful article at Design Room.

Resonance of 4

レゾナンス・オブ・フォー

1994

Interactive installation creating a visual and musical environment in a gallery or museum space. 4 people can corabolate together.

Piano - as image media

映像装置としてのピアノ

1995

Media art installation mixing a grand piano, screens, projectors, computers, software, and an interface. Toshio Iwai created this work at ZKM, Karlsruhe in Germany in 1995, later presented in NewYork, Lyon, London and etc.

SIMTUNES

シムチューン

1996

PC based visual musical creative software for children. Released from Maxis inc. developer of Sim City and etc. 

CD-ROM runs on Windows3.1 and Windows95

Music Plays Images X Images Play Music

Music Plays Images X Images Play Music

1996

Collaborative performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto

won Golden Nica of Interactive Art category of Ars Electronica Festival 1997 

Composition on the Table

テーブルの上の音楽

1999

Audio visual interactive installations

presented at SIGGRAPH, ICC and etc.

SOUND-LENS

SOUND-LENS

2001

mobile device transform lights into sounds

Floating Music

Floating Music

2001

allows creating 3D images and music with fingertips 

Electroplankton

エレクトロプランクトン

2005

Commercial software for Nintendo DS

Released from Nintendo

TENORI-ON

TENORI-ON

2007

Electronic musical instrument designed by Toshio Iwai released by YAMAHA