TMPO - Feedback - A Score For Two or More Mobile Phones 2004 - Present
Participatory Performance
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 and then move them apart altering the tone and intensity of the feedback. The result is a sort of danse macabre, often ending with one pair standing, the score getting quieter as the participants slowly give up, loose reception or run out of credit.
Feedback - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones 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. It has since been performed at numerous events, protests and institutions such as Pitzer College, California, US, 2007, Bugsplat Conference, The Hunerkada Art Centre, Islamabad, PK, 2011, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE, 2010 and Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH, 2009.
In Vibrate - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones the audience is asked to pair up and put their phone ringer onto vibrate mode. When given a signal, one person phones the other and lets it ring until it goes to voice mail. Counting to ten, the participant hangs up and returns the call. This action is repeated until participants are instructed to call their voice mail and play back the messages simultaneously.
In Text Bomb - A Score for Ten or More Mobile Phones the audience is asked for their numbers, which I then store into my mobile phone. They are then instructed to select a notification sound for a text on their phone and turn the volume up. The audience is then invited to place or hide their phones in a space of their choice while I press send on a group text.
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Participatory Performance
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 and then move them apart altering the tone and intensity of the feedback. The result is a sort of danse macabre, often ending with one pair standing, the score getting quieter as the participants slowly give up, loose reception or run out of credit.
Feedback - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones 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. It has since been performed at numerous events, protests and institutions such as Pitzer College, California, US, 2007, Bugsplat Conference, The Hunerkada Art Centre, Islamabad, PK, 2011, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE, 2010 and Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH, 2009.
In Vibrate - A Score for Two or More Mobile Phones the audience is asked to pair up and put their phone ringer onto vibrate mode. When given a signal, one person phones the other and lets it ring until it goes to voice mail. Counting to ten, the participant hangs up and returns the call. This action is repeated until participants are instructed to call their voice mail and play back the messages simultaneously.
In Text Bomb - A Score for Ten or More Mobile Phones the audience is asked for their numbers, which I then store into my mobile phone. They are then instructed to select a notification sound for a text on their phone and turn the volume up. The audience is then invited to place or hide their phones in a space of their choice while I press send on a group text.
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