March 4, 2008
3 iPhones and music program equals one iBand
Three art students from Austria have hacked into their iPhones - a big no-no, from Apple's perspective - and loading them with music-playing software, which they have used to record songs. The videos they put on YouTube last month of what they call the first iBand have been drawing heavy traffic from technophiles and curiosity-seekers. IHT reports.
"Their debut video, posted Feb. 17 and briefly the top-featured video on the site, is fairly rudimentary, from a musical perspective at least: In what the band describes as a "jam session," one iPhone plays keyboard software, another plays a virtual guitar program and a Nintendo DS video game player plays percussion. The result is more songlike noise than melody.
But the fascination was instant: The three were immediately deluged with requests for interviews, for copies of the song and for information about the software and equipment they had used.
The original video had been viewed more than two million times by Sunday, and more than 13,000 viewers had left comments."
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