(from the
smule home page)
Ge Wang [Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Creative Officer] is an Assistant
Professor at Stanford University, at the Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from
Princeton University and a BS in Computer Science from Duke
University. Ge is the creator and chief architect of the ChucK audio
programming language, and is the founding director of the Stanford
Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
(MoPhO).
(from
WAtoday.com.au)
Beijing-born Wang, who emigrated to the US when he was nine, credits his
grandparents with helping to instil his love of music.
His grandmother was a fan of Peking Opera and played the erhu, a
classical Chinese string instrument. His grandfather kept what Wang
described as an amazing collection of cassette recordings of Western
classical music all taped from radio broadcasts.
(from
USA Today)
We believe in the potential of interactive sound; we believe that
everyone is inherently creative; and we want to unlock that creativity
in everyone," says Wang, 31. "We want to find new types of ways to
connect people, using the technology we have before us.
(from Newsweek Article)
Ge Wang never dreamed of becoming a high-tech Silicon Valley
entrepreneur. He's an assistant professor at Stanford, a specialist in
computer science and music whose biggest passion has been organizing
nerdy "laptop orchestras" comprising 20 people each "playing" a notebook
computer. But last summer his friend Jeff Smith --- who'd run two
successful high-tech companies before dropping out of the corporate
world to take music classes at Stanford --- talked Wang into trying to
create applications for Apple's iPhone. Smith and two others put up some
seed money, and Wang, 31, set to work with a handful of engineers. They
called the company Smule, and created four applications, priced at a
buck apiece. There's a virtual lighter, a virtual firecracker, a voice
changer that can make you sound like anything from Darth Vader or an elf
on helium, and the big winner of the bunch—a program called Ocarina
that turns the iPhone into an electronic wind instrument.
home page
YouTube channel
Smule, Ge Wang's company
