February 11, 2005
Cellphones with rhythm
Music technologists are pushing new programs that are turning the cellphone into a palm-size answer to the turntable, or a slimmed-down recording studio on the go, reports The Globe and Mail via RingerNews.
"The music-mixing software now on-millions of PCs may soon become a fixture on cellphones and hand-held organizers. These early programs are crude, able to blend only a few sound snippets at a time. But by allowing amateur DJs to create mixes with their cellphones, the software could offer musicians a new level of autonomy, and give nonmusicians another reason to stare at the little screens in their hands.
[...] SSEYO miniMIXA, released by the Tao-Group, is considered the most sophisticated of the mobile music tools.
[...] Eventually, Cole said, miniMIXA will be sophisticated enough to allow artists to jam over the phone.
"At first, this will be a way for kids to make their own personal ring tones — ones that no one else has," Cole said. "But as the software grows up, musicians will turn the mobile phone into an instrument that can really sing for them, like Hendrix did for the guitar."
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