The Apple ads keep telling us, “there’s an app for that.”
British musician Gary Go has taken this expression to heart; as well as, advantage of several of those apps – music apps that is – to create a number of his songs.
This summer Go is planning to make history by using only his iphone as his band when he opens for British pop stars Take That this July in Wembley Stadium. Gary says his only fear is that his phone will ring in mid-song. Gary grew up behind the stadium and remembers listening to concerts in the garden of his home when he was young.
Gary has a virtual four-track studio installed on his phone and he has downloaded several instrument apps (applications) to his phone that create the guitars, drums, keyboards, and horns for his original work.
Gary is not the only musician making use of the music apps – guitars, bass, drums, saxophone, piano, keyboard, horns, and even a bagpipe app – to write and record their music. In an age when electronic music has its own genre, it stands to reason that musicians would use an electronic devise such as a mobile phone to write music.