February 25, 2004
Interactive Live Show
One of my readers, Mirai, sent me this interesting e-mail about his being the first European to play a Techno gig using mobile technology in 2001, which was broadcast nationally across Japan.
As a freelance audio engineer for Yamaha in Tokyo, he had all the mobile
synth modules to play with and toured Japan with the Interactive Live Show.
The audience of around 1000 people were split into 4 groups, each given a telephone number to call. The phones were on stage, behind a transparent video screen (that covered the whole stage), and the audience were asked to call up the phones during the music, which set off melodies in 'C', mixed with the music.
And interesting, Mirai was recently called in by T-Mobile/Handy.de to raise the musical production standards of Ringtones, as about 250,000 ringtones were found to be of low quality.
For more on ringtones concerts staged around the world, check out this category in Ringonia.com
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