Musicians Name 2011’s Top Music & Tech Innovations
The O Music Awards blog takes a three part look at the music and tech found most innovative by a current crop of musicians. Getting things done while being mobile is an especially important theme for these hard working artists. Apple products sweep with an exceptionally strong showing from the iPhone and iPad.
Top Music & Tech Innovations of 2011: Part 1
- The Limousines: iTunes Match
- OK Go: Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Synthesizer
- U.S. Royalty: iPhone
- SPACECAMP: "wide access to music"
- The So So Glos: "new interactive music video thingies"
Top Music & Tech Innovations of 2011: Part 2
- PYYRAMIDS: Spotify
- The Antlers: Animoog for iPhone
- Total Slacker: "VCR Guitar"
- Clubfeet: Dropbox & Google Groups
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: ReBirth for iPad
Top Music & Tech Innovations of 2011: Part 3
- The Drums: TouchOSC for iPad
- Class Actress: Geist from Fxpansion
- PUJOL: "the WAY people used social media and communications technology in 2011 to organize and execute human/collective social realities all over the world"
- AM: Sonoma Wire Works Fourtrack iPhone App
- Bosco Delrey: "4-track recorders that are phone apps"
Apple's products are appealing not only for their design but for their status as the top platform for mobile apps. Once established, such a position is difficult to challenge.
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I realize most people don’t look to classical music and opera for innovations, but by far the most advanced and innovative music technology we saw this year was in Tod Machover’s opera “Death and the Powers”, with cutting-edge music and technology developed at the MIT Media Lab. Seamless fusion of story, music, stagecraft and performance technology created an incredibly immersive, cinematic experience. The disembodied performance technology, omnipresent sound system, interactive robotics and other technologies developed for this opera are paving the way for the future of live concert performances. Check it out!
http://opera.media.mit.edu/projects/deathandthepowers/index.php
Thanks Clyde and also Thanks June, this is very interesting!
I have put it on the Music Thinking Weekly were I collect everything about Music Thinking (more info: http://www.musicthinking.com)
BTW: you can do it too!
Will be interesting to see what 2012’s Top Music & Tech Innovations will be.
Things are heating up, should be an amazing year!