Title: Phonica (Interactive audiovisuals for mobile phones)
Artist: Various Artists
Format: Interactive files intended for mobile phones
Catalog#: esc.rec.28
Available by SMS (3,00 euro per ‘track’, only available in The Netherlands)
Or download (10,00 euro for the whole ‘album’)
Download a free file to check if your mobile phone supports our content**
This release is a collaboration with MobileVideoNet.com.
** Your mobile phone has to support Flash Lite content. If you don’t know, go to the your phone manufacturer’s website to find out. Symbian and Windows Mobile users can download a Flash Lite player here.
01 Robert Witt - Fase (preview at MobileVideoNet)
SMS: e-art 17 -> 2211 (3,00 euro, only available in The Netherlands)
Description: As time passes, soundscapes drift along.
02 AvoidAudio – Space Left Forgotten (preview at MobileVideoNet)
SMS: e-art 18 -> 2211 (3,00 euro, only available in The Netherlands)
Description: Strange noises and minimal art echo in a void of emptyness.
03 Garçon Taupe – Taupe Soundcloud (preview at MobileVideoNet)
SMS: e-art 19 -> 2211 (3,00 euro, only available in The Netherlands)
Description: Weather conditions and 8bit sounds respond to different battery levels. Depending on the weather, sounds differ from relaxing to nervous.
04 MONOFOOB – grphs (preview at MobileVideoNet)
SMS: e-art 20 -> 2211 (3,00 euro, only available in The Netherlands)
Description: Your phone’s signal and battery values are represented in graphs passing by. Depending on these values, the numbers become more and more unreadable and form an ever changing moving composition. Panning of sound is controlled by time.
05 Radboud Mens – Moiréclock (preview at MobileVideoNet)
SMS: e-art 21 -> 2211 (3,00 euro, only available in The Netherlands)
Description: An interactive clock. Minutes and hours are represented in sound and image. Depending on time, line patterns overlap and form a moiré-effect.
06 MONOFOOB – Clouded Views *Free Bonus*
Download this file for free to test if your phone supports our content (or just because it’s free).
Please note that since these works are all interactive by nature, the previews offered by MobileVideoNet are no more than representations of the real thing.
For this release esc.rec. teamed up with MobileVideoNet, an artist initiative that focuses on the possibilities of art, mass media and public distribution. It operates at the frontier of mobile phone art productions and alternative public distribution. In a joined effort we created the first interactive audiovisual release for mobile phones ever!
The works respond to changes in battery level, signal strength and time, which effects both audio and image.
The selection of interactive audiovisuals can now be previewed and, during 2010, ordered via our sms text message service 2211 (only available in The Netherlands). The interactive audiovisuals are internationally available as a download ‘album’ through Bandcamp.
Pioneering audiovisual works were created by Garçon Taupe, Radboud Mens, Monofoob, Robert Witt and AvoidAudio.
Tip: use headphones when possible.
If you feel compelled to share your opinion after listening to this release, please feel free to leave your review in the comments below.
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