Techdirt points out a New Scientist article, Cellphone software allows a musical jam.
“English engineers have found a way for groups of people to collectively create music using their cellphones. “Nick Bryan-Kinns and his colleagues at Queen Mary College (QMC) have developed daisyphone software that let will groups of people phone into a mobile number and work together to improvise short, looping tunes.”
My blog gives you more details on the project and includes a screen capture of the creation of some school kids after using the software. You can try daisyphone by yourself (providing you have Java 1.4.1).
The tempo is set by the speed at which a ‘radar arm’ rotates around the daisy. As the arm passes over coloured shapes placed on the dotted petals, musical sound samples — such as piano, flute or snare drum — are played.
Each of four instruments is represented by a different shape, while colour indicates who placed it. Distance from the centre of the daisy indicates pitch and ranges over a couple of octaves. All users can alter anybody else’s work. They can also be “daisy-chained” together.
Griff is a full-blown virtual music studio for the Pocket PC, complete with sequencer, sampler, mixer, instruments and effects while the DJ Mixer (below) is a handy tool for sound production/mixing.
How about incorporating the “iPort” into public art? I smell a grant!
With the holidays coming up, tens of thousands of dollars will be spent putting up holiday lights. For a small incremental cost, you might as well get a WiFi hotspot/repeater installed too. Here’s last year’s Daily Wireless story on Wi-Fi Light Sequencers to get the creative juices going.
A Pocket PC can send and receive X-10 data wirelessly.
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