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Ingenious iPhone performance by popsters the Mentalists
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Ingenious iPhone performance by popsters the Mentalists Unsigned act gather together their iPhone apps instruments Bringing a whole new meaning to playing music from your Apple handset, all-female band the Mentalists took things a little more literally by reaching for their iPhones to belt out a cover of MGMT s track Kids . The psychedelic pop lovelies with touchscreen beauties in hand used apps Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite all downloaded from the application store, and recreated an ingenious performance of the catchy commercial hit. You can see the video of their iPhone musical antics below in what we think is an admirable homage to the recent radio ...
First song created using just iPhone apps, and the Mentalists' ingenuity
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Ingenious iPhone performance by popsters the Mentalists Unsigned act gather together their iPhone apps instruments Bringing a whole new meaning to playing music from your Apple handset, all-female band the Mentalists took things a little more literally by reaching for their iPhones to belt out a cover of MGMT s track Kids . The psychedelic pop lovelies with touchscreen beauties in hand used apps Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite all downloaded from the application store, and recreated an ingenious performance of the catchy commercial hit. You can see the video of their iPhone musical antics below in what we think is an admirable homage to the recent radio ...
UK Girl Group Emerge As New iBand Contender
iPhone Savior —
It's not often that I get an email tip from a Creative Manager at Sony Music Entertainment UK pointing me to an unsigned group of girly girls playing iPhone instruments. This all girl band go by the name "The Mentalists", seen here performing a wicked cover of "Kids" by the wildly popular UK band MGMT using only the iPhone and iPod touch to dazzle a crowd. Their performance is far from musical perfection, but who cares, it's all about iPhone domination in the UK. Though "The Mentalists' are way more than just an iBand by design, it's ...
London's The Mentalists Cover MGMT on iPhones [IPhone Apps]
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We've never heard of the Mentalists (because we're old), but this four-woman London band just covered MGMT's Kids using just iPhones. And it doesn't sound like shit! The foursome used the App Store's Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite to recreate the song. Again, surprisingly not horrible. [T3]
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iPhone, iPod Touch Musicians Cover MGMT
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We've been big fans of musical instrument apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the above video is a great example of how they can all come together to play some catchy jams. The apps used include Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite — all available through the App Store. I love that MGMT song, by the way.
Any iPhone musicians in San Francisco? We should band up! I could do guitar with iShred.
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The Mentalists Rock Out With Their iPods Out!!!
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[image] The Mentalists are a group of über-hot, sinfully-sexy, rocker chicks who will seduce you all with their electro-rock pop-tart tunes and hot British accents. Seriously... who doesn't fantasize about being serenaded to by four lovely U.K ladies? We here at Mac|Life all do. [image] What has caught our attention even more, then their already cool videos and tunes, was a cover of MGMT's "Kids" The Mentalists did using only their iPhones/ iPod touches and apps they downloaded from the App Store. They used the Ocarina , Retro Synth , miniSynth , and DigiDrummer Lite . It's pretty much one of the most magical things we have seen in a long ...
UK band creates song using just iPhone apps
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A local London band, the Mentalists, recently performed a live cover of MGMT’s “Kids”. While that’s not really news, the interesting part about the performance is that it was performed using only apps found on the Apple App Store. The applications used during the performance included Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, and DigiDrummer Lite and were performed on both iPhones and iPod Touches. A truly creative band when it comes to using the latest technology while being portable at the same time. [ T3 ...
UK Band uses iPhone and iPod Touch to creates Song
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[image] A London music band, the Mentalists, has performed a live cover of MGMTâs âKidsâ. And the interesting part is that the performance was performed using only the apps found in the Apple App Store, includes Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, and DigiDrummer Lite, with their iPhone and their iPod Touches. Looks like one of them is the WWE Champion, but wait… the “W” logo is upside down which I guese it means “M” for Mentalist. Video after the break. [via New Launches ...
Live iPhone musical performance
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The Mentalists play Kids by MGMT on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using only apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. Apps used Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer Lite.
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Video: The Mentalists cover MGMT rather awkwardly on iPhones and iPod Touch
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Using Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, and DigiDrummer Lite, an all-girl UK band covers that one MGMT song about the family of trees. It sounds okay, but it seems like they're slogging through it just so they can provide the background music to a boutique opening or something.
iPhone - All You Need to Be a Pop Star
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We’ve previously shown some of the musical ...
Beautiful girls and beautiful iPhones make beautiful music together
Macenstein —
Beautiful girls and beautiful iPhones make beautiful music together I think we can all agree that the only thing sexier than girls who play instruments is girls who play iPhones. And since girls who play iPhones is simply a fetish I made up just now, you can imagine my surprise when faithful Macenstein reader Antonio sent us this clip of the UK girl group The Mentalists ...
"Kids" played on iPhone/iTouch
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Phil Clandillon sends this music video of The Mentalists playing Kids, originally by MGMT.
The Mentalists are an all female act based here in London. They've done this unusual cover of MGMT's "Kids" played entirely on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using apps from the application store.
What kinds of great music can you play on your iPhone, iTouch or Android phone? What other interactive applications work great on smart phones? Have you made a holder for your phone so its easier to play? Add your thoughts to the conversation in ...
Band plays track with just iPhones and iPod touches
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You either like the MGMT track "Kids" or you don't.
The question is: will you like the Mentalists' version which is played not using instruments, but entirely on iPhones and iPod touches.
The all-girl band downloaded applications from iTunes and played as if they were deaf to tradition.
Among the downloads was the Ocarina app, which lets you mimic the sound of a flute. As well as RetroSynth and MiniSynth, which both help you believe you currently live with the Pet Shop Boys. The drums were performed courtesy of DigiDrummer Lite.
But enough about the technology. See whether you think, as ...
Band Uses 4 iPhone Apps To Produce Viral Hit
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The most brilliant digital marketing strategies executed by the smartest digital teams quite often don’t come close to creating the viral boost that a little imagination, ingenuity and sense of humor can. Music Ally pointed us towards this piece of fun which features indie band The Mentalists using four iPhone apps -Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth and DigiDrummer Lite - to produce a cover of MGMT’s “Kid’s”.
iBand
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When Josh showed me Pocket Guitar on his iPhone a few months back, I said "when will we go to a concert and the band will come out playing iPhones?" Looks like it's happening even sooner than I thought.
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The Mentalists Use Apps to Make Music
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The Mentalists, a girl group from the UK, created this video “Kids” by MGMT using only their iPhones and instrument simulation apps. The band’s singer, Kim-Leigh Pontin, plays an ocarina by Smule, Alice Offley plays a miniSynth from Yonac, Kelly Appleton uses Iconic Apps’ Retro Synth and Lyndsay Evans ...
MGMT tune played by iPhone orchestra
Boing Boing —
Here are The Mentalists using iPhone and iPod Touches to cover "Kids" by MGMT. (Thanks, Gabe "TuneUp" Adiv!)
Leaf Trombone out now in the App Store
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Developer, iPhone, App Store I've been down on the fine folks at Smule in the past -- I've said that their app Ocarina seems kind of silly (even if people have created some pretty awesome stuff with it and other less annoying music apps). And about the only thing they could have done to make it up to me was to develop some sort of super massively multiplayer music app, some app in which you could play a tune and have it sent all around the world. So I guess I have to call off my pretend grudge against them once ...
iPhone artist playing Wembley stadium from handset
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Musician Gary Go is set to play a whole new kind of stadium gig. Instead of using real instruments for his guitar, drums, piano and horn sections, he’ll be using his iPhone and software downloaded from the iTunes store.
Go actually used his smartphone to record demos for his album. “At this point it's quite hard to think of something I don't use the phone for," he said. "For songwriters it's an amazing tool as I always have it with me. I used to phone myself and leave messages to remember ideas. Now I can record real tracks in the park - it's great."
This won’t actually be the first performance of its kind; ...
iPhone artist playing Wembley stadium from handset
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iPhone artist playing Wembley stadium from handset Mum, can I call you back? I'm in the middle of something... Musician Gary Go is set to play a whole new kind of stadium gig. Instead of using real instruments for his guitar, drums, piano and horn sections, he ll be using his iPhone and software downloaded from the iTunes store. Go actually used his smartphone to record demos for his album. At this point it's quite hard to think of something I don't use the phone for," he said. "For songwriters it's an amazing tool as I always have it with me. I used to phone myself and leave messages to remember ideas. Now I can record real tracks in the park - it's great." This won t actually be ...
iPhone artist Gary Go pens a Twitter track
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Leaving no tech stone unturned, muscian Gary Go has now sought inspiration from micro blogging site Twitter for help in writing his latest track.
The song entitled 'Heart Balloon' was created using lyrical suggestions from his Twitter followers for the track inspired by a photo he uploaded to the site of a heart shaped balloon caught in trees outside his house.
Twitterer AmyLizOne sent, "I’m caught on the wind and I’ve lost all control, you caught my heart and now you’ve let it go."
The tech embracing artist is already set to play Wembley Stadium supporting Take That with his unique sound ...
iPhone artist Gary Go pens a Twitter track
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iPhone artist Gary Go pens a Twitter track Mum, can I call you back? I'm in the middle of something... Leaving no tech stone unturned, muscian Gary Go has now sought inspiration from micro blogging site Twitter for help in writing his latest track. The song entitled 'Heart Balloon' was created using lyrical suggestions from his Twitter followers for the track inspired by a photo he uploaded to the site of a heart shaped balloon caught in trees outside his house. Twitterer AmyLizOne sent, "I m caught on the wind and I ve lost all control, you caught my heart and now you ve let it go." Go is already set to play Wembley Stadium supporting Take That with his unique sound created solely ...
Tim Conneally's Concerto for Guitar and iPhone, Op. 2
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By Tim Conneally, Betanews
The creative end of the music industry is drawing ever closer to a nexus: a point where composing, recording, distributing and publicizing music meets. You could be holding it in your pocket right now, and it's not the same point of convergence sold by the ounce that drove the industry in the past. It's the ubiquitous, lionized, and oh-so-lucrative iPhone. Recording tasks that were once executed by huge studios are being accomplished in smaller and smaller settings: the demo studio was supplanted by the home studio, which was in turn replaced by the even smaller PC/laptop studio. Indie pop band The 88 made the next step down ...
Best Ways to Produce Music on an iPhone
Wired: Epicenter —
Making music with telephones isn’t an entirely new concept; just witness Bedhead and Macha’s cover of Cher’s “Believe,” whose main chorus is played on a touchtone phone. However, the iPhone transcends novelty status when it comes to making music, due to the sensitivity of its controls and its versatility in the hands of enterprising app developers. A wide variety of solid options exist for creating entire songs with an iPhone.
These apps aren’t about to disrupt the market for full-fledged music production software, but they have opened the doors for a whole new slice of the ...
Mobile Melodies: Top 10 Musical Performances on Cellphones
Mashable! —
There’s a lot of creative energy out there. And we live in a world now where tools to help us express those creative energies can live right in our pockets.
It’s in the spirit of celebrating this marvelous age that we bring you this collection of mobile music performances. All of the music here is being generated by a cell phone — think about that for a minute!
While most (but not all) of these performances are on the Apple iPhone, we hope to see some Android orchestras sprouting up before too long. We tried to get a mix of instrumentation in here, as well as serve up a mix of great covers and creative originals as well. ...
Maestroalberto, a tutta musica suonare con l’iPhone
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Maestroalberto segnala come suonare con il cellulare…specialmente con l’iPhone
Mashable in un curioso post seleziona i video delle 10 migliori performance musicali eseguite col telefono cellulare, soprattutto con l’iPhone…
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