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This is one of the coolest things I've ever come across! Dialtones is a cellular symphony -- in advance of the concert, the composer collects the ring-tones and phone numbers of the audience, and plays his tunes by calling them singly and bunches. The music is weird and haunting and lovely, and utterly unlike anything I've ever heard.
Dialtones is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones. Because the exact location and tone of each participant’s mobile phone can be known in advance, the Dialtones Telesymphony will be able to present a diverse range of unprecedented sonic phenomena and musically interesting structures
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