- Golan Levin is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer. Levin likes to create artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. He is known for liking to manipulate sounds and images .
- Cellphone Symphony was an event in 2001, which involved Levin getting 200 members of the audience holding their phones each programmed with a different pitched ring. Levin then dialled the phones from the stage via a computer. This created a symphony of ringing sounds.
'Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia.' http://www.flong.com/bio/en/
Golan Levin Projects...
The Foundation partly supported the development of Dialtones (A Telesymphony), a concert performance in which all the sounds are wholly produced through the choreographed ringing of the audience's own cellphones. Before the performance, the audience's cellphones are programmed at special Web kiosks where individual phone numbers are registered. Individuals are then given specific seat numbers and a new ring tone. During the concert a group of musicians plays the cellphones by dialing them up with specially designed visual-musical software created by the artist. Dialtones (A Telesymphony) was first presented at the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria) in September 2001.
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=229
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