Student Orchestra Performs Music With iPhones 65
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.”
Re:Annoying factor bigger than geek factor (Score:1, Interesting)
I disagree. I was unimpressed by the implementation but found the piece beautiful.
Incidentally, I'm having a hard time imagining music that is not tonal variations of sine waves. Do you have any examples?