[microsound] iPhone apps

[Ted Pallas]

but would someone have listed themselves as playing "electric guitar" in
1952?  because that's where we are in dog-years with the iphone/smartphone
phenomena...


Ted Pallas
Live Media Designer
Sandwich Construction Consultant
ted dot pallas -at- gmail dot com
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, mattyo <news at ostrowski.info> wrote:

> Given that it's not customary for people to list the maker of the guitar,
> amp, cables, saxophone, or whatever else they use, it certainly looks like
> marketing.  But since consumption choices have become the new way of
> locating oneself socially, and mucis is a social medium, I'm not surprised
> to see it.
>
> \M
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Ted Pallas wrote:
>
> > I don't know, you guys - is it wrong for people to form an emotional
> relationship with a pile of silicon? Because that's how I feel about my
> iPhone - she's my girl Friday.
> >
> >  I think saying iPhone is totally ok - it not only is in fact what he's
> holding, but for the audience it serves as a reminder that it's ok for a
> disposable device to be in the same art-space as, say, a Strad.
> >
> > Ted Pallas
> > Live Media Design
> > Sandwich Construction Consultant
> > cell - 516 286 9661
> >
> > Pardon the typos, sent from my Casio SK-1
> >
> > On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Michal Seta <mis at artengine.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> That's an interesting observation.  Would you rather be happy with
> "guitar, mobile"?  I guess, that would be a little ambiguous (Smoke on the
> Water by Deep Purple references "making music on a mobile" which probably
> isn't a mobile phone).  Or would you rather be happy reading "guitar, iAmp"
> (or whatever the application is being used, perhaps more appropriate because
> it is probably the application that will somehow influence the sound
> qualities and not actual hardware.  Does iPhone sound different from HTC?).
>  He could have probably said "guitar, electronics" but that does quite large
> and specifying that uses an iPhone is actually a marketing move.  Perhaps it
> makes him hype?  But then, perhaps Apple has actually given him an iPhone to
> make music with and he has a contractual obligation to mention the
> trademarked icon.  Now, how about this:
> http://www.ataut.net/site/Adam-Atau-4-Hands-iPhone.  Does that make you
> seek a decontamination facility?
> >>
> >> I see your points, though.  I think I will use "a handheld device
> capable of producing sound".  Sounds much more enigmatic.
> >>
> >> ./MiS
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:52 AM, isjtar <list at isjtar.org> wrote:
> >> I'm a Mac user and an Apple customer, but supposedly critical minded
> people who go flaunting Apple products like that, i dunno, it's just
> wrong...
> >> if it would be any other megacorporation, people would frown upon it,
> but Apple gets a free pass in some circles and even gets used to obtain an
> image of "state of the art" or "cutting edge".
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 13 Apr 2011, at 14:49, Michal Seta wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:27 AM, isjtar <list at isjtar.org> wrote:
> >>> that said, was at a festival for contemporary music and in the program
> was one person who put as instruments: violin, iPhone.
> >>> I felt dirty after reading that.
> >>>
> >>> that's interesting!  How dirty did you feel.  And why?
> >>>
> >>> ./MiS
> >>
> >>
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