Last posts on digital creativity2026-11-12T05:49:14+01:00All Rights Reserved blogSpirithttps://starter.blogspirit.com/https://starter.blogspirit.com/en/explore/posts/tag/digital%20creativity/atom.xmlAndrea Gaggiolihttp://gaggio.blogspirit.com/about.htmlThe iPhone Orchestratag:gaggio.blogspirit.com,2009-12-06:18632822009-12-06T13:34:00+01:002009-12-06T13:34:00+01:00 The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) is a new repertoire-based...
<p style="text-align: justify;">The <a target="_blank" href="http://mopho.stanford.edu/">Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra</a> (MoPhO) is a new repertoire-based ensemble using mobile phones as musical instrument. MoPhO's interactive musical works take 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.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The researcher behind the idea, Ge Wang, believes cell phones are becoming so powerful that we “cannot ignore them anymore as platforms for creativity. . . . It levels the playing ground in some ways, because everyone has a cell phone.”</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><img src="http://mopho.stanford.edu/images/mopho2.png" width="347" height="336" /><br /> <br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra’s performance on December 3 at Palo Alto (CA) used an Apple iPhones amplified by speakers attached to small fingerless gloves. Here is a video of the concert.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #882222;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p><object height="345" width="377" data="http://tv.repubblica.it/static/swf/z_adv_player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="flashvars" value="autostart=false&keyT=&key=&baseURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/static/images/player/&file=repubblicatv/file/2009/conc051209.flv&repeat=false&logo=1&strip=0&nielsenBrand=repubblicatv_&brand=brand_repubblicaradio&dState=normal&scaleMethod=fit&rel=false&fsType=fl&" /> <param name="src" value="http://tv.repubblica.it/static/swf/z_adv_player.swf" /> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p>