2002, Kakehashi published an autobiography, I Believe In Music, and was featured as a biography in the book The Art of Digital Music. As of 2002, Kakehashi was awarded about 50 patents, since the 1960s. In 2005, he was awarded the title of professor emeritus of the Central Music College of China and the University of Glamorgan. In 2013, Kakehashi received a Technical Grammy Award, shared with Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits, for the invention of MIDI. The 2015 documentary film 808 documented the impact that his Roland TR-808 drum machine had on popular music and popular culture, describing it as the "rock guitar of hip hop". In 2017, Electronic Musician magazine listed thirty of his instruments and innovations that have influenced popular music over the course of fifty years. Bibliography I Believe in Music (2002) An Age Without Samples (2017) References External links "Berklee College of Music, Honorary Degree Recipients" http://www.berklee.edu/about/honorary.html "Guitar Center's Hollywood Rockwalk" Ikutaro and the Rise of the Rhythm Composer ATV Corporation Ikutaro Kakehashi NAMM Oral History Interview (2001) 1930 births 2017 deaths Grammy Award winners Inventors of musical instruments Japanese businesspeople Japanese engineers Japanese inventors Japanese music industry executives Japanese musical instrument makers