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Dialtones - A Telesymphony
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."
they'll be arrested.
What would happen if someone really tried to call you?? Would people get mad if you were talking to someone on you cellphone during a...cellphone concert??
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all you naysaying trolls on this thread ought to listen to a few of the MP3 files. it sounds really neat, and the amount of thought and preparation that went into this performance is impressive. It's hard to do something really new and unique (and relevant) in art or electronic music, and these folks have done it. i look forward to the CD.
I'm sure the 867 prefix is in use in most area codes.
Then again, like you said - local. I know in NJ, 17 miles away was a toll call. In GA, half the state is local to me.
I still remember the huge number of rumors as to what was on the other end of that number.
This happened a while ago... Not exactly breaking news. I saw Golan Speak in Ann Arbor, MI a few months ago. He did a performance with his visualization studio. If you ever get a chance to see him, he's a pretty cool guy.
I've heard part of the performance... It's not just the noise that one might think it would be. They downloaded unique ringers into everyone's phone and created ordered melodies and rhythms. (this happened in europe where being able to download ring tones is more the norm and not the exception) It was very cool, and I really think you'd need to hear it to really appreciate it... /me shrugs
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I once heard stair way to heaven on the phone - that was back in the day when blue boxing was still around and an exiting friday night meant being on a conference call with 30 other phreaks.
How could they time this properly? I know that there is a relatively long, varying delay between when the phone is dialed, and when the phone eventually rings. Just wondering...
And I thought my nerdy version of "Name That Tune" was off the wall. I'd send my friend Rich a BASIC "PLAY" statement and ask him to guess what tune it was. Then he'd run it, discover it was the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song and we'd both laugh because we were Ren and Stimpy geeks.
Ah, memories. That was a nifty hack you did, though.
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Being a computer music composer/researcher, I am just annoyed I didn't think of something like this first!
This really is an excellent idea. One problem you have with electronic installations and concerts are things like sound spatialization. Some ways musicians combat this is to set up 12 channel sound systems with the speakers distributed around the entire hall so you can hear hear music moving around in a real 3D space, or they use projected speakers to pin-point sound into certain areas. But hey why use your own speakers when most the population carries a speaker in their pocket!
The performer would have known the phone number for every mobile in the hall, plus he would know the location of each phone. Just imagine a wave of dial tones moving across from one side of the hall to the other, sweeping up and down, pinpointing to one point in the hall, and then spreading out in a random spread across the hall. This really is cool. I wish I was there. You would probably have to experience something like this live to really appreciate it.
And for anyone who thinks this is weird, you need to get out more often. I have been to concerts where the audience were given bubble wrap, and the piece consisted of the audience popping it - oooh fun!
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This immediately made me think of the "Boom Box" experiments that The Flaming Lips were doing a few years ago -- they would hand out boom boxes and cassettes to 40 or so members of the audience. Each cassette would contain different mixes of the same song. When all 40 tapes were played at the same time it would create a spacial effect, but also the tape players would wobble in and out of sync with each other creating a temporal effect as well. On top of this, the band members would "orchestrate" the piece by signalling people to turn up or down the volume on their tape player. One place to read more about it is here.
A few years ago Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Cohen thought of the "Parking Lot Experiments" -- he created a symphony with each instrument recorded on a single tape. Then he had a group of forty people with cars that had tape players show up to his parking lot and he would "conduct" them.
Something similar could be found a few years later in the Lips' release of Zaireeka a 4-disc set that is meant to be played simultaneously.
At least that's what popped into my mind when I read this.
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Sounds a lot like the previously reported dot matrix symphony a while back. Interesting, but an acquired taste.
Well the whole point of the 4:33 piece is to make the listener aware of sounds in the environment, i.e. mostly those made by the audience. So this was in effect a very modern performance of 4:33. I'm sure Cage would have been very pleased.
Recently there was a band that included a minute of silence on their CD, they have now been sued by Cage's publisher for unauthorized sampling. I kid you not.