Lovely, image-based scheduling app Diacarta has partnered with Pitchfork Media to emanate the first-ever iPhone (iphone 4 Outright Price) app for the annual Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
"The legal holiday drift aren't overly difficult as good as have been elementary to navigate," says Pitchfork President Christopher J. Kaskie, explaining because the fest didn't formerly have the own app. "The [Chicago] Reader was a excellent approach to have the report laid out, though it was on newspaper, behind pockets get hot, as good as it was a tiny big. This will have things most simpler in 2011."
Now song festivals have been charity scheduling apps to have formulation what gigs to see some-more palatable. SXSW had Festival Explorer Austin Edition, as good as Lollapalooza hold a hackathon to crowdsource the preferred app.
Pitchfork incited to Diacarta, whose cultured seems in line with the song fest's indie feel. Diacarta's graphics stop those whimsy-soaked gig print booths during Pitchfork.
The app is intensely easy to use: Click on report as good as corkscrew by the acts personification on any of the 3 days of the fest. Click on a rope for some-more info as good as daub the "Plus" pointer to supplement a uncover to your calendar. Your monthly monthly calendar comes in the form of 3 clocks — a single for any day — with the bands situated around the face during the time they perform. You can additionally share your report or an particular rope around Facebook or Twitter, as good as check out a map of Union Park, where the fest takes place.
Although the Pitchfork 2011 app [iTunes link] is lovely, it lacks a little facilities which would have done it a some-more finish package — similar to the choice to attend to marks by bands during the festival. Push presentation reminders would have been a accessible further as well.
Still, as Kaskie says, this is a comparatively tiny song festival. There have been 3 stages, as good as if we mount in the center of the arena, we can fundamentally spin around to see who's playing. So maybe a whim app isn't unequivocally in order.
What do we consider of the new Pitchfork 2011 app? Have we used apps to assistance navigate song festivals?
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