drumFunny - percussive comedy & music humor » iphone http://drumfunny.com Percussive comedy and music humor including videos, pictures, original rudiments, and other original content Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Stanford’s Mobile Phone Orchestra http://drumfunny.com/2009/11/23/stanfords-mobile-phone-orchestra/ http://drumfunny.com/2009/11/23/stanfords-mobile-phone-orchestra/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:25:43 +0000 Chris Leone http://drumfunny.com/?p=2259 Stanford’s Mobile Phone Orchestra, or MoPho, is an experimental musical ensemble that uses mobile phones (primarily iPhones) as their musical instrument. MoPho takes advantage of the “unique technological capabilities of today’s hardware and software, transforming multi-touch screens, built-in accelerometers, built-in microphones, GPS, data networks, and computation into powerful and yet mobile chamber meta-instruments.”

MoPho began back in 2007 by Stanford University faculty member Ge Wang and held its first public performance in January of 2008.

With screen size being a major limiting factor, the market for apps like this should explode once tablets really take off (Mac tablet, prease).


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