August 22, 2006
PLAY.Orchestra
If you go down to the South Bank in London this summer, outside the Royal Festival Hall is a wonderful installation titled PLAY.Orchestra. 56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker. Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to turn on that instrument and bring 58 friends to hear the full piece.
People with Bluetooth phones will be able to receive a ringtone of the piece created, as well as upload their own sound samples in September.
Each Saturday from 19 August to 30 September between 11am and 1pm we'll be running live events in the PLAY.orchestra, with live Philharmonia musicians, sound recording equipment and people on hand to help you find Bluetooth on your phone.
Record a sound using your phone and send it back to us via Bluetooth - these sounds will enter the sample library and become part of the music in the PLAY.orchestra from 23 September
[via networked performance]
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