Ocarina

Three-iPhone Ocarina Much More Expensive Than No-iPhone Ocarina

2:10AM November 24, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Do you have three iPhones kicking around that you aren’t using? If so, you could make an insanely expensive ocarina out of them using some laser-cut plastic. But the real question is why you would do such a thing. More »


Software

The iPhone Ocarina: Link Never Would Have Allowed This

9:12PM November 7, 2008 | John Herrman

Until this week, tapping and shaking accounted for the whole of the questionable “iPhone as an instrument” experience. Now it’s gone too far. The SMule Ocarina app recognises the roar of you blowing into the iPhone’s mic and converts it to the moderately mellifluous sounds of a digital Ocarina. It comes with presets, exhibited here on video. The above preset: Zelda’s Overland Theme. Below: Robert Plant’s and Jimmy Page’s Greatest Indignity. [SMule via BBG]

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