Ge Wang and his iPhone Ocarina application, revolutionising the world of music?
Earlier we heard about the 9-year-old Singaporean whiz kid making Apple iPhone applications for children his age. Ge Wang, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra and inventor of the Ocarina iPhone app, is the latest success story in Apple iPhone application creating.
About a year ago, Ge Wang didn't even own an iPhone, nor any intention of starting his own company. Now the associate music professor at Stanford University, California is the iPhone greatest faces of success.
This past November, Ocarina was the best-selling iPhone app in the U.S. and 10 other countries. Wang says the product made "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in its first month.
Ge Wang is also the founder of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, well at home in Silicon Valley, the orchestra pumps out a unique electronic sound like nothing you've ever heard.
Musicians sit on yoga cushions in front of black Apple MacBook laptops which are hooked up to the inverted salad bowls, studded with six car hi-fi speakers.
They may also be sporting fingerless gloves, modified with yet more speakers which are in turn wired to Apple iPhone's.
31-year-old Wangs other creative genius is the Ocarina - a palm-sized, flute-like wind instrument that sounds like pan pipes. The iPhone application has netted Wang hundreds of thousands of dollars from the iTunes store, and counting.
"You don't need to be a big development company," Wang says. "It doesn't take a lot of time to try ideas on this thing." Ocarina was built in just two weeks.
Ocarina uses to iPhones microphone so that a players actual breath is used to create a desired sound, along with moving your fingers over the touch pad of the iPhone, similar to a real musical instrument.
The application even allows users to ease drop on other Ocarina users who are playing music at any time somewhere on the planet. Its what Ge Wang calls "melodic social media".
Who knows, Ge Wang could re-write the history books and revolutionise the way people around the world acquire and create music forever.
Via: SMH and CNN Money
Earlier we heard about the 9-year-old Singaporean whiz kid making Apple iPhone applications for children his age. Ge Wang, director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra and inventor of the Ocarina iPhone app, is the latest success story in Apple iPhone application creating.
About a year ago, Ge Wang didn't even own an iPhone, nor any intention of starting his own company. Now the associate music professor at Stanford University, California is the iPhone greatest faces of success.
This past November, Ocarina was the best-selling iPhone app in the U.S. and 10 other countries. Wang says the product made "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in its first month.
Ge Wang is also the founder of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, well at home in Silicon Valley, the orchestra pumps out a unique electronic sound like nothing you've ever heard.
Musicians sit on yoga cushions in front of black Apple MacBook laptops which are hooked up to the inverted salad bowls, studded with six car hi-fi speakers.
They may also be sporting fingerless gloves, modified with yet more speakers which are in turn wired to Apple iPhone's.
31-year-old Wangs other creative genius is the Ocarina - a palm-sized, flute-like wind instrument that sounds like pan pipes. The iPhone application has netted Wang hundreds of thousands of dollars from the iTunes store, and counting.
"You don't need to be a big development company," Wang says. "It doesn't take a lot of time to try ideas on this thing." Ocarina was built in just two weeks.
Ocarina uses to iPhones microphone so that a players actual breath is used to create a desired sound, along with moving your fingers over the touch pad of the iPhone, similar to a real musical instrument.
The application even allows users to ease drop on other Ocarina users who are playing music at any time somewhere on the planet. Its what Ge Wang calls "melodic social media".
Who knows, Ge Wang could re-write the history books and revolutionise the way people around the world acquire and create music forever.
Via: SMH and CNN Money
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