MetaLonsdale App Demo

<p>This video shows a demo of MetaLonsdale, a touch-screen musical instrument app for iPad. MetaLonsdale is a collaborative musical instrument originally created for a performance at Everything Nothing Projects at Lonsdale St Traders in Canberra, Australia. The app provides a free-form touch area that can be tapped and swiped to perform field recordings from this venue as well as an array of percussive sounds. GUI switches control a looping function and an autoplay feature that triggers clusters of quiet sounds. The sounds and tonality of the instrument can be shuffled by pressing the &ldquo;sounds&rdquo; button.</p> <p>The app was originally created as a revision of MetaTravels, the prototype app used in Ensemble Metatone&#39;s early rehearsals. Improvements in MetaLonsdale included a refined user interface and a sequence of pre-defined scales for pitched sounds that provided a sense of harmonic motion in performances. A network feature enables multiple devices running Meta-Lonsdale on the same WiFi network to find each other automatically and to control each other&#39;s tonality, looping, and autoplay functions. Following the premiere performance, MetaLonsdale was integrated into Ensemble Metatone&#39;s performance and research practice in 2013 and the app was subsequently released on the iTunes App Store.</p>