We Will Rock You: Reloaded
This mobile web application has been developed in the context of Collective Sound Checks with the Studio 13/16 at the Centre Pompidou.
This application allows a group of players to perform Queen’s song “We Will Rock You” with a set of simple instruments and to create their own versions of the song. The players can choose between drums, voice solo, choirs, Freddy Mercury’s voice fill-ins (‘sing it’), a guitar power chord, and the final guitar riff.
While most of the instruments trigger segments of the original recordings when striking with the device in the air, the power chord and guitar riff resynthesize guitar sounds through granular synthesis.
The application has been published here (requires a mobile device under iOS 6 or later, or Android 4.2 or later with Chrome 35 or later).