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The Ocarina, for instance, could be considered nothing more than a 21st-century kazoo. What makes it something more compelling is the app’s curious resurrection of the casual group music-making, unconcerned with professional perfection, that has been part of the human experience for thousands of years. “Whether people are conscious of it or not, what Smule is doing is bringing people back to those kind of communal activities,” says Peter Kirn, whose site CreateDigitalMusic.com is a compendium of tech music projects and inventions. ~ You Tunes, Rob Walker, The New York Times

The Ocarina, for instance, could be considered nothing more than a 21st-century kazoo. What makes it something more compelling is the app’s curious resurrection of the casual group music-making, unconcerned with professional perfection, that has been part of the human experience for thousands of years. “Whether people are conscious of it or not, what Smule is doing is bringing people back to those kind of communal activities,” says Peter Kirn, whose site CreateDigitalMusic.com is a compendium of tech music projects and inventions.

~ You Tunes, Rob Walker, The New York Times

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