Mobile Phone Concert: Artist Interview
Interview with the creators of Dialtones: A Telesymphony. Dialtones (20012002: Golan Levin, Scott Gibbons, Gregory Shakar, Yasmin Sohrawardy et al. ) is a largescale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience s own mobile phones. Before the concert, participants register their mobile phone numbers at a series of web terminals; in exchange, new ringtone melodies are automatically transmitted to their phones, and their seating assignment tickets are generated. During the concert, the audience s phones are dialed up by live performers, using custom software which permits as many as 60 phones to ring simultaneously. Because the exact location and tone of each participant s mobile phone is known in advance, the Dialtones concert is able to present a diverse range of unprecedented sonic phenomena and musically interesting structures, such as waves of polyphony which cascade across the audience.
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