Selects the signals! - A radio concert for 144 mobile phones
Hamburger Kunsthalle, 26 - 04/27/2003
144 mobile phones all night lying in an inaccessible place for visitors - the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the Hamburger Kunsthalle - from. is the only access into this space it on the radio, the Internet and the wireless telephone network via the mobile phones which are designed in a square grid of 12 by 12 units, hanging microphones, the recording will be broadcast live on radio and audio stream. The listeners of the program are invited to call the mobile phones and thereby trigger their ringtones. These ringtones were composed for the occasion of the Hamburg sound artist Jens Röhm.
The information generated by the call tones to associate the sound to a common result, a collective composition. The scattering, the simultaneity of the broadcasting and the constellation of listeners is on the radio concert as aleatory, random words, heard at any time controllable composition.
addition to the radio transmission was broadcast on a screen of the mobile Internet field in which were each placed, visible. The concert began at 20 clock in the evening and lasted twelve hours. The course of the concert was consequently influenced by the rhythms of the listeners. While often in the first hours up to 30 listeners at the same time signals selected, it was in the night time usually only 3 to 5 Overall, the Associated over 4,000 calls to the composition.
The Radio concert Selects the signals! tried a radio listening to the adequate form of musical composition to find. Radio listening takes place simultaneously, instead of scattered over many radio stations, the listeners are so in a certain constellation invisible to them. In radio concert for 144 mobile phones, this scattered constellation be made audible.
Sample 1: 21.31 bis 21.36 clock clock
Sample 2: 03.39 bis 03.44 clock clock
The grid of the phones on the internet
sketch of the composer Jens Röhm
The mobile phones before the concert
- and thereafter.
