January 20, 2021 10:23 am
Pentagram partners Sascha Lobe and Yuri Suzuki have designed the new identity for the Musical Instrumental Digital Interface (MIDI), based on musical forms and frequency waves.
The work includes a new logo (static and sonic), sound design, video and motion graphics as well as typography.
MIDI is used by musicians, producers and DJs as a way to create and share musical work. Before MIDI technology, there was no standardised way of synchronising electronic musical instruments from different companies.
In the early 1980s, Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi and Sequential Circuits president Dave Smith discussed how an industry standard could be formalised and came up with the plans for MIDI. The first instruments that used the technology were the Roland Jupiter-6 and the Prophet 600, both released in 1982.
Synthesized drum roll, please: Roland back on the bourse in Tokyo Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Kyodo Dec 16, 2020
Roland Corp., a Japanese electronic musical instrument-maker, returned to the Tokyo stock market Wednesday, about six years after delisting due to structural reforms.
Roland finished its first day of trading on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange at ¥2,920 ($28.20), 5.8% below its IPO price of ¥3,100. The company was valued at ¥79.8 billion at the end of the day.
Its market capitalization based on the opening price of ¥2,954 was ¥80.7 billion, making it the second most valuable company to list this year after Yukiguni Maitake Co., a firm based in Niigata Prefecture producing and selling mushrooms and other food items, which was valued at over ¥83.0 billion.