Her daughter Amy is the joint principal bassoonist in the Philharmonia, and she waxes lyrical about the orchestra's new app, which matches music with commentary by players and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Sleek real-time chat + to do list app Orchestra is announcing its funding this morning, with a just closed $5 million Series A round from Charles River Ventures and SV Angel, in addition to an earlier $500K in seed funding from Kapor Capital and other angel investors.
In the three weeks since its launch, Orchestra has been iTunes "App of the Week" in every app store worldwide, and was selected by Lifehacker as "Best To-Do App for the iPhone".
When the funding was announced in November 2011, the company was known as "Orchestra," a to-list app that you could share with others.
The KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra or KAMPO iPhone app allows you to orchestrate melodies with other users.
Damsbo's previous projects, such as interactive symphony World Online Orchestra and Recho, an app that lets you plants digital recordings in physical places, were close, but The Doghouse takes the idea to a new level. .
We will take a journey through software design for music, expressive audio programming, laptop and mobile phone orchestras, mobile/social music apps like Ocarina and Leaf Trombone: World Stage, and an emerging dimension where the computer, music, and people interact.
In 2012 it became the first UK orchestra to develop its own app, which gave multi-camera views of the players alongside interactive scores and commentaries.
Consider, if you will, the hype around the new "Mailbox" app from developer Orchestra which is aiming to turn a streamlined Gmail client into an uber to-do list.
