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Collaborative music app for phones

Via the New Scientist, another cellphone app that we'd like to try is daisyphone, a piece of music software developed at a UK university that allows a group of people to jam together online. It uses a simple visual interface--the "daisy"--on which you draw notes that are played as a rotating "radar arm" passes them. Loops can also be joined to make longer tunes. Apparently some cellphone networks in the UK are showing interest--fingers crossed that it makes it to Japan as well. Most Java apps for phones that we've seen this far have kept to a pretty narrow range of genres (mostly games); hopefully more innovative applications like daisyphone will spark developers into a bit of lateral thinking.