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Dialtones - A Telesymphony

Posted by michael on from the hi-kymah-andronis dept.

1337g writes "For once there's a use for those annoying ringing mobile phones during a concert. The entire Dialtones concert was performed by the ringing of the audience's mobile phones. The site shows how they pulled it off, and even gives a few samples of the concert."

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  1. who do you yell at? by nebenfun · · Score: 0, Funny

    "Turn off those damn phones! Er..nevermind..."
    nbfn

  2. Yeah, but did they play... by vought · · Score: 5, Funny

    867-5309?

    1. Re:Yeah, but did they play... by kikta · · Score: 4, Funny
      I still remember the huge number of rumors as to what was on the other end of that number.


      uhhh... Jenny?
  3. I was there... by tunah · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was really looking forward to it. Just as they were about to start, some moron's cell phone rang in one of those annoying musical ringtones.

    This behaviour has got to stop. Do what I did - walk out and demand your money back.

    --
    Free Java games for your phone: Tontie, Sokoban
  4. This is the first ... by Raiford · · Score: 3, Funny
    ... phone song since My Ding-a-Ling, my ding-a-ling, I want you to play with my ding-a-ling --Chuck Berry

    --
    "player 4 hit player 1 with 0 stroms"
  5. thats all fine and good... by intermodal · · Score: 5, Funny

    as long as it was done after 7pm on a weekday or on the weekend...otherwise all the people who were roaming to see the concert were screwed...

    --
    In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
  6. Irony? by vicviper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've only gotten through the first 2 mp3s on their site, but you can hear someone coughing during the performance...

    "Shut up so I can hear the phone!"

  7. Ahh the memories! by peterdaly · · Score: 5, Funny

    In high school (years ago for me now), we had a computer lab of about 25 machines. A friend and I got the whole lab to play a song using a simple program, written in either BASIC or Pascal. (I forget which)

    Each machine had and endless loop checking for the existance of a file representing a musical note on a network drive. When found, if assigned to play that note, the machine would play the note until the file disapeared. Each machine was assigned a note. Each note had more than one PC assigned to it around the lab.

    We were able to entertain ourselves, as well as anyone walking through the lab, for at least an hour tinkering with the end resulting music.

    -Pete

    --
    Soccer Goal Plans
    1. Re:Ahh the memories! by siliconshock.com · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah.. i remember those days at my HS. We wrote BASIC programs what would simulate a valid looking dos prompt then would begin to do an endless loop of playing annoying sounds through the pc speaker..

      Of course we had a count down timer on them so we could get out of the class room and into the hall just in time to have them go off on 30+ machines... Then the teacher would have to reset each machine, great laughs for 15yr old computer geeks.

  8. Just wait a few years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Each member of the audience will inhale nanobots that will trigger coughing at precise moments to produce a coughing concert.

  9. Re:Why? by Patrick13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...For once there's a use for those annoying ringing mobile phones during a concert....

    You've got to hand it to them. They actually found something *more* annoying than a ringing cell phone.

    --
    ::.. check out some Cell Phone Reviews
  10. Stupid guy ruined it by detritus. · · Score: 3, Funny
    Listening to the first audio sample on the site, it sounded great until some idiot had to cough and interrupt my enjoyment. It's
    • always
    something!
  11. The last time I checked... by thelinuxking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Contrary to what many apparently believe, this isn't the first time cellphones have been used to represent "a symphony". Ever hear a mobile phone play the 1812 overture in the middle of a watching a movie or a play?

    It's actually highly realistic...if the owner of the phone continues to let the it ring for long enough, the sound of gunshots fired by disgruntled moviegoers is just like the sound of cannons being fired in the real song!

  12. One of the performances was ruined. by nobodyman · · Score: 5, Funny



    I was in the audience and was enjoying quite a bit. However, some woman behind me kept playing her violin.

    On top of that, the first few minutes of the performance caused a panic. Too many people switched their phones in vibrate mode upon entering the theatre (habit, I suppose). The resulting shockwave as the symphony began caused part of the building to collapse.

  13. It seems... by GospelHead821 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that somebody heard a cellphone ringing and thought "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those."

    --
    Virtue finds and chooses the mean.
    Aristotle, Ethica Nichomachea
  14. play some Cage! by salmo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dunno about you but I'd love to hear a room full of cellphones play John Cage's 4'33" (4 mins 33 seconds of silence).