From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone

Keeping with the same theme but in music instead of visual arts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/technology/05orchestra.html?_r=2&scp=6&sq=music&st=Search

"The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra’s performance on Thursday used the most unusual of instruments: Apple iPhones amplified by speakers attached to small fingerless gloves."

"While computer music composers once spent hours programming giant mainframes to synthesize a single sound, advances in hardware and software have brought powerful and easy-to-use music tools to personal computers and now, to smartphones."

This article is a fascinating statement about the era that we live in. The arguments, of course, are for the expressiveness, subtle, and response one can get out of a traditional instrument. "Nothing is better than a cello at playing the cello".