Cellphone software allows a musical jam

Computer interactivity expert Nick Bryan-Kinns and his colleagues at Queen Mary University of London. They have developed software that let will groups of people phone into a mobile number and work together to improvise short, looping tunes, according to New Scientist.

"The QMC team hope people will be able to engage with their friends in the same way jazz musicians appear to "mentally connect" when jamming.

Their Java-based software, called Daisyphone, looks like a floral join-the-dots puzzle (see picture). Unlike a musical stave's horizontal sequence of notes, the daisy's circular design "reinforces the looping nature of the music," says Bryan-Kinns.

| 9:11 AM | Real Music |
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