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Windows Mobile Smartphone powers concert
« on: 2003-11-28 09:26:31 » |
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Source: http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/4051.html
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World first: 250,000-watt generative music performance created by mobile software application running on a smartphone.
On Sunday night at the annual Ars Electronica Festival attendees witnessed what is believed to be the world’s first live concert featuring music and sounds generated entirely on-the-fly from a mobile phone application. Using BAFTA award winning SSEYO Koan generative music software running on the intent Sound System from Tao Group, curator and performer Tim Didymus played music for his 250,000-watt electronic ambience set from his Microsoft Windows Mobile-based i-Mate Smartphone.
Tao’s intent Sound System (iSS), a suite of audio technologies, brings full audio capabilities to mobile devices. It includes audio and MIDI frameworks for audio effects plugins, visualisers, synthesisers, music engines and codecs, as well as playing high quality polyphonic MIDI or audio ringtones in a wide range of popular formats. In particular, the iSS offers support for SP-MIDI, MIDI, MP3 (with 3rd party codec), OGG, MOD, WAV (including ADPCM), AU, PCM, DLS, SKM, RTTTL, I-Melody, Koan (SKD/SKP/TextVector), Tone Sequence. and the SKM format, an "open" XML-based meta content format, allowing MIDI files / MIDI generators to use accompanying compressed or uncompressed audio samples in combination (as required) with standard MIDI sounds. In addition, the iSS supports plugins offering reverb, filters and tone generators, 3D spatial positioning, MIDI harmonisers / generators / renderers, and audio sensitive visualisers.
With its feature set and APIs, the iSS allows application developers to utilise interactive audio and MIDI techniques in games, visualisers or in music tools and players. As the iSS offers an extendable framework, it also creates possibilities for developers of plugin audio engines, synthesizers and effects.
For mobile phones in particular, the importance of high quality sounds for revenue generating content is becoming more evident. Recently the Mobile Data Association predicted that sales of ringtones would soon exceed sales of CD singles. Whether or not sales of ambient concert tickets have been affected is yet to be seen.
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