
Last week we reported on a director who shot a music video using only three iPhones. Now, Tom Freeman brings an all-iPhone production to the arena of sound with the release of his electronic soundscape, iMatik.
Aided by a quiver of powerful sound-production apps, Freeman produced the entire album — from creating the tracks to editing [...]



Written by Eli Milchman on March 17th, 2010 with no comments.
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Way back in 1991, just as Apple was transitioning from 68k to PowerPC chips, the braniacs at Xerox PARC were predicting it’s entire iPod, iPhone and iPad strategy. And next up for the iPad is a blackboard-sized device.
Nearly 20 years ago, just as personal desktop computers were taking off, researchers at Xerox started thinking about [...]



Written by Leander Kahney on March 16th, 2010 with no comments.
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Drums are awesome; there’re few things as satisfying as making sounds by thumping something with a stick — even if that stick is virtual. Now, for a buck, the iPhone can be turned into a virtual museum of virtual drums, thanks to Vintage Drum by developer OutOfTheBit.
Nine drum kits are available to choose from, [...]



Written by Eli Milchman on March 10th, 2010 with no comments.
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The world’s most advanced music AI runs on a rickety old Power Mac 7500.
Called Emily Howell by its creator, music professor David Cope, the program just released “her” first album, From Darkness, Light, in January.
Some say Emily Howell passes a version of the Turing Test: listeners cannot tell the music was composed by software. In a fantastic report [...]



Written by Leander Kahney on March 4th, 2010 with no comments.
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Folks, let me tell you a secret: I sing. I sing all the damn time. It’s a good job I work at home all by myself, because if I worked in an office I’d drive my colleagues crazy by singing at them all the time.
And since the birth of the App Store, I’ve been [...]



Written by Giles Turnbull on March 3rd, 2010 with no comments.
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