TMPO - The Mobile Phone Orchestra - Feedback - A Score For Two or More Mobile Phones 2004 - Present
Participatory Performance
Derived from a classroom prank and serving as the antithesis to the mobile ‘smart phone’ orchestras we experience today, Feedback - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones, was conceived and first performed with a live audience in 2004. It has since been performed at numerous events, protests and institutions such as Pitzer College, California, US, 2017, Bugsplat Conference, The Hunerkada Art Centre, Islamabad, PK, 2011, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE, 2010 and Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH, 2009.
In Feedback - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones the audience is asked to get into pairs, turn the volume on their phones to maximum, switch their ringers off and their phones to speaker mode. One person phones the other while the second answers. Participants are then encouraged to move their phones close together generating a feedback loop.
Feedback is one of three scores written for mobile phones including Vibrate - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones (2004) and Text Bomb - A Score for Ten or More Mobile Phones (2004). All three compositions were first performed at The Gluerooms, London, UK in 2004, under the moniker TMPO - The Mobile Phone Orchestra.
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Participatory Performance
Derived from a classroom prank and serving as the antithesis to the mobile ‘smart phone’ orchestras we experience today, Feedback - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones, was conceived and first performed with a live audience in 2004. It has since been performed at numerous events, protests and institutions such as Pitzer College, California, US, 2017, Bugsplat Conference, The Hunerkada Art Centre, Islamabad, PK, 2011, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE, 2010 and Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH, 2009.
In Feedback - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones the audience is asked to get into pairs, turn the volume on their phones to maximum, switch their ringers off and their phones to speaker mode. One person phones the other while the second answers. Participants are then encouraged to move their phones close together generating a feedback loop.
Feedback is one of three scores written for mobile phones including Vibrate - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones (2004) and Text Bomb - A Score for Ten or More Mobile Phones (2004). All three compositions were first performed at The Gluerooms, London, UK in 2004, under the moniker TMPO - The Mobile Phone Orchestra.
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