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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."
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This behaviour has got to stop. Do what I did - walk out and demand your money back.
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There are some MP3s on the site (Holding up so far..)
This is actual music. It contains actual melodic lines and stuff. Neat.
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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...
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I hate to break it to you, but that isn't exactly the 'ding-a-ling' Chuck was thinking about...
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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!"
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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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.
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Each member of the audience will inhale nanobots that will trigger coughing at precise moments to produce a coughing concert.
...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.
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something!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.
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!
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.
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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...
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.
...by some guy who had an extra mobile phone that played the "Mission Impossible" Theme half way through... ...And then there were the other's whose phones immediately forwarded to message bank... ...And let's not forget those who had their phones set to vibrate:
BEEP! BEEP!-BAH! BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP! bzzzz
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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Busted. That's a derivative work of a copyrighted song published by AOL. Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
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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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...that somebody heard a cellphone ringing and thought "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those."
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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).
So do the makers of the mobile phones own the distinctive sounds being made by these phones?
If this becomes amazingly popular, are they entitled to sue the creators for stealing music?
How long before other instrument makers start demanding performers pay royalties?
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I hope that this guys realiase what they just did.
This is a flagrant violation of copyright.
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Sounds a lot like the previously reported dot matrix symphony a while back. Interesting, but an acquired taste.
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My school's IBM 1130 (size of a large desk, power of a pocket calculator) put out so much RF that you could place a transistor radio (Remember those? Nope? Didn't think so) on top of the CPU and when certain combinations of i/o were run would play music from the radio.
he he he , good old days....
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Yeah, there were similar programs for the PDP-8 that generated music by RF on a transistor radio placed on console desk.
Did the IBM 1130 only play the [big] blues?