• iPad Orchestra Proves Not All Industries Need To Be Disrupted

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

    Meet the iPad Orchestra, brought to you by the brand spankin’ new to the iPad App Store Seline HD. While I usually hate to be the thorn in the side of progress, if this is what the future of classical music looks like then I would like no part.

    Because I’m actually into watching the fat guy with the gong awkwardly squirm all symphony long just to hit his instrument once. Somehow an iPad tap doesn’t have the same resonance, literally.

    Amidio’s Seline HD, which sells for $5.99, makes this alien-like abstraction of an orchestra possible by allowing you to choose from 20 instruments voices — flutes, bowed strings, reeds, etc — and nine corded synth paths.

    Unfortunately the shirts that say FLUTE, VIOLIN, etc are sold separately.

    If you actually like iPad Orchestra, then you might also like Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra or “Mopho” as they like to call it. Here they are, performing at the 2009 Crunchies:

    Product: iPad
    Website: apple.com
    Company Apple

    The Apple iPad, formerly referred to as the Apple Tablet, is a touch-pad tablet computer announced in January 2010, and released in April 2010. It has internet capabilities running on either WiFi or 3G, and offers an optional dock with a full size mechanical keyboard. The 3G is provided by AT&T, but comes unlocked with microsim cards on the GSM network. The 3G does not require a long-term contract. The iPad is a line of tablet...

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