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Ticketmaster Testing Online Seat Map Feature
Ticketmaster has begun beta testing a new online "Interactive Seat Maps" for a select number of sports teams. Interactive Seat Maps allows users to navigate and choose from all seats and configurations. Ticketmaster's traditional "best available" searches uses computers to search availability one row at a time, the upgraded maps allows people to look for tickets in any part of a venue. "This is a major step in improving the fan experience of buying a ticket online," said Kip Levin, Ticketmaster's Senior Vice President of Product & Digital. "Ticket buyers can now choose from all available seats and highlight seats by the price range they want to spend or by the type of specials and packages being offered by the artist, team or show. "They can also pick seats from the exact location they prefer, pick groups of seats that aren't all in the same row, or buy single tickets that might be separated only by an aisle or row - all options that have not been available until now." Searches start with a view of the venues seat map and by scrolling over rows and sections seat summaries and availability are displayed. Continue reading
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University Creates iPhone Orchestra
iPhones are being used as musical instruments in a new class taught at the University of Michigan. The students who design, build and play instruments on their iPhones, will perform a free public concert on December 9. The course called "Building a Mobile Phone Ensemble" is believed to be the first of its kind. The class is taught by Georg Essl , a computer scientist and musician who has been working on developing mobile phones as musical instruments. "The mobile phone is a very nice platform for exploring new forms of musical performance," said Essl. "We're not tethered to the physics of traditional instruments. We can do interesting, weird, unusual things." "This kind of technology is in its infancy, but it's a hot and growing area to use iPhones for artistic expression." To build an instrument on an iPhone, the students program the device to play back as sound information it receives from one of its sensors. The touch-screen, microphone, GPS, compass, wireless sensor and accelerometer can all be changed so that when a user runs their fingers across the display, blow air into the mic, tilt or shake the phone, different sounds will come out of the device. The class requires some creativity and technological savvy according to Essl. "In order to come up with a creative piece you have to engage with the technology, but in order to make technology interesting, you also have to engage with the musicality. These are really hard to separate. We're trying to teach both," Essl said. Continue reading