iPhone musicians invited to perform live with indie legends Good Night, States

Good Night, States, it seems, are a trusting lot. These indie rockers have not only supplied Noise.io soundbanks for their songs, but if you check 'em out at Mr. Small's in Pittsburgh this Friday you can plug your iPhone or iPod into the house sound system and jam along with the group. Noise.io, if you've not seen it before, bills itself as a "highly advanced sound synthesis workstation," with a unique touchscreen interface and all kinds of features sure to make softsynth fans positively giddy. Ready for your fifteen minutes of fame? Pick up your copy at the App Store for $8.99, and then proceed to the read link to get started -- but not before you peep the video demonstration after the break.

[Via Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound]

[loosely_coupled @ Jul 14th 2009 7:42PM]

^^^ ban the idiot troll!

[Alex @ Jul 14th 2009 3:10PM]

"iPhone musicians"?

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[Gingerbread Man @ Jul 14th 2009 3:14PM]

Holy burnt battery Batman! To the App Store!

[mehrad @ Jul 14th 2009 3:27PM]

It's also fun hooking it up to your auxiliary port in your car.

[Jon @ Jul 14th 2009 3:46PM]

I read this whole post and I only understand about 1/4th of it.

[Ian Kane @ Jul 14th 2009 3:48PM]

I've seen Good Night, States play a great many times, and I must say that they always bring the rock.

[Samboini @ Jul 14th 2009 4:36PM]

I didn't know Alcatraz fitted in a suitcase.

[cacois @ Jul 14th 2009 8:05PM]

Ian speaks the truth! They put on a great show..

[jasonik @ Jul 14th 2009 3:47PM]

Having bothered to watch the video (instead of saying "ohmygod it's an IPHONE BLAH!!"), the lame thing is that the audience participation is incredibly minimal, you're just providing a tiny bit of texture to a pretty trad song. Plus you have to make sure to do it exactly at the right time and you don't have much choice in terms of effects. It's interesting that it involves an iPhone, making the music playing more democratic, but otherwise seems kinda boring and pointless. Participatory music I think should involve something a little more dynamic.

[tf @ Jul 14th 2009 3:50PM]

I haven't downloaded the app (yet) but this band is great.

[dan2600 @ Jul 14th 2009 4:15PM]

knowing that similar apps have existed for years on computers...using it on an iPod automatically makes it "cooler"

[M @ Jul 14th 2009 4:28PM]

So whats this band/collab called?

Can i find them on spotify?

[midiwall @ Jul 14th 2009 4:44PM]

http://goodnightstates.com/

[nicleT @ Jul 14th 2009 6:05PM]

They want the musician to work with Noise.io (http://noise.io/) which is one of the only real complete synth on the iPhone but despite the quality of this app, there's so much other inspiring iPhone apps that could be used. They don't really look for an iPhone musician performer but rather someone who will take them by the hand. Interesting project though.

[Don @ Jul 14th 2009 6:53PM]

Ok.... "musician" might be misleading here... The iPhone is great and has lots of apps, but why use an iphone to do some very simple musical rhythm when an electrical piano is more than capable of doing? Sure it looks fun, but using it in a professional environment is a little silly. Its like making a TI app on the iphone and not using your TI-89 to solve an engineering problem.

[jmzrbnsn @ Jul 14th 2009 7:29PM]

You can't put an electric piano in your pocket. We have formed an iphone-kaosillator band and we could go on tour with all the gear in a small bag.....

[nicleT @ Jul 14th 2009 7:30PM]

Well Don, in that case why not use a violin section instead of a sampler? I think because it's just another instrument for (musical) creation; the sampler does not replace a real violinist but you can do things impossible for a violinist too. So you can perform with an iPhone as an instrument on its own if you want to - some people do - as you can perform it with only a crappy piece of wood. But for technical things I agree with you.

[eric @ Jul 14th 2009 10:34PM]

I can't comment on what these guys represent,
but to consider a live music event a 'professional environment' kind of defeats the purpose of making art.

As a musician I hope that my music and that of the people around me never becomes part of a 'professional environment'.

Let's all use whatever tools inspire us, or best make the big or little noises we think up.

[Bones3D @ Jul 14th 2009 11:08PM]

Noise.io is a pretty amazing app capable of just about anything you can think of musically. It even has the ability to interact with other iPhone apps like BeatMaker, which only extends its range even further.

About the only other app I've seen that comes close to Noise.io in flexibility is "Jasuto", a software synth where you design your own patches via flow charts. (It's similar to concepts like "wiring" used in "MindRover: The Europa Project"...)