Project that turns iPhone and Wii remote into any instrument beats out other ingenious inventions.
By Gil Kaufman
Tim Soo
Photo: Tim Soo
One of the beauties of the first-ever O Music Awards is that it's one of the only shows that gives out hardware not just to the artists who make the music we love, but to the fans at home who take their awesome creations and make them, well, even more awesome.
That's the idea behind the Best Music Hack category, in which the six nominees came up with amazing ways to make the music listening, and creating, experience easier, more interesting and enjoyable. From helping you map your next road trip based on where your favorite bands are playing to turning your phone into a sousaphone or transforming your blog into a singing telegram, these hackers put some serious thought into their music geek creations.
The winner, Tim Soo, developed Invisible Instruments, a handy tool that allows you to re-create the sounds of any instrument you can imagine using just an iPhone and a Wii remote. He's made the tool work for himself, but he's in the process of raising money to create a version ready for use by everyone from children to music professionals.
Among the nominees was Mike Novack, who came up with Gigbeat, an application that searches for concerts featuring the artists in your library, then let's you create favorite lists based on those searches and share them with friends, while alerting you to when those acts are coming to town.
The nominees were all incredibly creative in their efforts to take existing technology and rework it to their own devices, including Gaurav Mehta's SoundBump, which allows SoundCloud users to interact with one another by just, yes, bumping their Android devices together by using the SoundGarage Android app for SoundCloud.
The team of Gomez, Garcia and Akkermans came up with Sing'Em All, which takes boring old blogs and Facebook pages and allows you to put them to music. Why just blog when you can sing your updates?
Ever hit the road for a long trip and kick yourself for not figuring out if your favorite band is playing along the way? Daughter/father team Jennie and Paul Lamere have the answer for you: Jennie's Ultimate Road Trip, which allows you to punch in your starting and ending points and the names of a few choice bands and then gives you a killer music-focused itinerary.
Marshall Jones' entry, Highlight to Listen, was a Google Chrome extension that allows you to search for information and music for any artist by simply highlighting text on a page.
Stay tuned all this week for more award announcements.
The inaugural O Music Awards will stream live from Las Vegas on Thursday at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT on OMusicAwards.com. Tune in to see who will reign supreme in categories like Most Viral Dance, Funniest Music Short and NSFW Music Video!
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