{"id":1197,"date":"2014-09-11T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T11:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:30:23","slug":"throwback-thursdays-imc-rap-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: iMC Rap Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fO97ukVPl4M\" height=\"374\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Back in 2009, BSc Creative Computing Student Eric Brotto released his final year project as on the iPhone app store.\u00a0The app uses real time audio analysis and manipulation technology on a mobile phone to create a rap soundtrack from a users voice.<\/p>\n<p>From the app store site:\u00a0<em>&#8220;Now you can be a rapper! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/iMCRapMaker\">iMC Rap Maker<\/a>\u00a0you talking and then transforms it into a rap song. Syncing your voice to the beat and even adding DJ scratches to your vocal means you get a Hip Hop hit produced by you. You can then share your creation with your friends via Facebook and SoundCloud. Download your iMC today!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Eric Brotto is now mentor-in-residence at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupreykjavik.com\">Startup Reykjavik Accelerator Programme<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/creativebyt.es\">Creative Bytes Worldwide<\/a>, and content creator for <a href=\"http:\/\/decoded.co\/uk\/\">DECODED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-style: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/ericbrotto.com\">Visit Eric&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, BSc Creative Computing Student Eric Brotto released his final year project as on the iPhone app store.\u00a0The app uses real time audio analysis and manipulation technology on a mobile phone to create a rap soundtrack from a users voice. From the app store site:\u00a0&#8220;Now you can be a rapper! iMC Rap Maker\u00a0you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throwback Thursday: iMC Rap Maker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[108,113,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}