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Student Orchestra Performs Music With iPhones

Posted by samzenpus on from the there's-a-symphonic-app-for-that dept.

A course at the University of Michigan ends with a live concert featuring students using iPhones as instruments. “Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble“ teaches students to code musical instruments for the iPhone, using the Apple-provided software-development kit. Georg Essl, assistant professor of computer science and music, says, "What’s interesting is we blend the whole process. We start from nothing. We teach the programming of iPhones for multimedia stuff, and then we teach students to build their own instruments.”

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  1. Wham by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm hoping it was heavy on the percussion.

  2. Well, it's nice to know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... That you if you put few weeks into it and a whole class of students, you can achieve the same result as a cat stepping on a keyboard at home.

  3. Re:Annoying factor bigger than geek factor by Magic5Ball · · Score: 2, Funny

    But that's the best part of this neo-conceptual post-institutional critique remodernist interpretation of the sine wave. The annoyance /is/ the music.

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    There are 1.1... kinds of people.
  4. idea good - implementation horrible by maxrate · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think I could generate better music by stepping on a cat or other small animal. Just awful.