Iphone + Guitar

The Phone Guitar, a project by a Dutch developer, places two Android phones, an iPod Touch and two Windows phones next to each other on a guitar frame and uses apps on the devices to play music.

As the video clip below shows, the developer ‘Steffest’ plays a version of Cracklin Rosie and its not the cacophony you would expect.

The original idea was to create the same mobile app on all three mobile platforms, he says. The app would be a small piano and drum sequencer.

That didn’t quite work out. “Audio latency is a b*tch and building the app from the same source proved to be possible but unusable,” writes Steffest on his blog. “I ended up writing it three times: in Java for Android, in C# for Windows Mobile and in Objective-C for iPhone.”

Instead what he did was combine his homebrewed app with other programs including the Pocket Stompbox for Windows Mobile that’s good for real time effects. There’s also iShred, an iPhone electric guitar app in the mix.

To play them all at once, he taped them on a piece of wood together with a battery powered speaker.

It’s not all that bad on the ears. Listen to it:

Read More http://www.wired.com