Welcome to an orchestra of twenty-first century. The iPhone cell being used as musical instruments in a course at an American university.
Students at the University of Michigan are learning to design, build and play instruments in their 'smartphones' Apple, and have planned a public performance on December 9.
The university said he thought the course was unique in the world. Professor Georg Essl is a musician and scientist who has worked on the development of mobile phones and musical instruments.
Essl and his colleagues began to use the microphone and wind sensor some years ago, allowing iPhone applications like the Ocarina, which basically turns the device into a wind instrument similar to an ancient flute.
"The mobile phone is a very good platform to explore new forms of musical performance," Essl said in a statement.
"We are not tied to the physics of traditional instruments. We can do interesting things, strange, unusual. This type of technology is in its infancy but is an area with attractive growth prospects and to use the iPhone for artistic expression, said.
Essl said that to make an instrument on an iPhone, the students programmed the device to play as sound information received from each of the multiple sensors.
"The touch screen, microphone, GPS, compass, wireless sensor and accelerometer can be transformed so that when passing a finger across the screen, blow into the microphone or shake the phone, for example, different sounds come out," said .
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