From: Jennifer Guerra, Michigan Radio
You may already know that you can download music to play as the ringtone on your cell phone, but University of Michigan students are making music without the download. They transform their iPhones into handheld musical instruments. Tonight, the group gives its first performance in Ann Arbor, Mich.
On a stage, nine college students in skinny jeans and hoodies stand in a semicircle rehearsing with their hands on their iPhones and their eyes on the conductor. It's the first University of Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble, and the brainchild of engineering and music professor Georg Essl. The students took a class with Essl, where they learned to turn their iPhones into pocket-sized musical instruments.
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