Iphone Orchestra

This is nothing that new in general terms, I've seen lots of different people performing with mobile devices for quite a long time (particularly reminded of DJ Scotch Egg conducting an orchestra of Gameboy performers), Standford "MoPho" - who look very similar to the above but describe themselves as a chamber music as opposed to full orchestral (!) there are lots of live performance and
not so live performance bits of sotware for a number of mobile platforms, the Palm Sounds blog goes into quite a lot of detail on many of them. I've done gigs on nothing more than an ipod touch, and it's a lot of fun.

None the less, what I think *might* be interesting utilising Iphones would be the use of the different interaction methodologies - stuff like game boys or similar have a limited amount of interation possibilities, they only have the control that they have, but the iphone (and others) have multiple interation possibilites, which could be used on conjunction to create some very nice performance possibilities - it's done by computer types first and foremost and not musicians, which is a good thing to my mind. It would be nice to see a more detailed run down of this aspect of the performance.

I like mobile music making stuff and this kind of publicity is always going to get more people interested and therefore mean more developers, which can only be a good thing.

Photo: The University of Michigan's iPhone orchestra in action. Photograph: PR via The Guardian.