Media: New Scientist plays up QMC Collaborative Music for Mobiles

New Scientist reports on new software that enables people to "jam" together to improvise music. The idea comes from UN's own advisor Nick Bryan-Kinns and colleagues at Queen Mary College.

They have developed software that let will groups of people phone into a mobile number and work together to improvise short, looping tunes, says the science magazine.

The idea is that 'people will be able to engage with their friends in the same way jazz musicians appear to "mentally connect" when jamming.'

The Java-based software, called daisyphone, 'looks like a floral join-the-dots puzzle. Unlike a musical stave's horizontal sequence of notes, the daisy's circular design "reinforces the looping nature of the music,".'

Associated Link: New Scientist: Cellphone software allows a musical jam

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