Dialtones (A Telesymphony) is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones. Before the concert, participants register their mobile phone numbers at a series of web terminals; in exchange, new ringtone melodies are automatically transmitted to their phones, and their seating assignment tickets are generated. During the concert, the audience’s phones are dialed up by live performers, using custom software which permits as many as 60 phones to ring simultaneously. Because the exact location and tone of each participant’s mobile phone is known in advance, the Dialtones concert is able to present a diverse range of unprecedented sonic phenomena and musically interesting structures, such as waves of polyphony which cascade across the audience. Dialtones was presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in September 2001, and at the Swiss National Exposition in May and June of 2002.
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This is the web site of Golan Levin, an artist and educator living in Pittsburgh. I teach at Carnegie Mellon University, where I also direct the Studio for Creative Inquiry. I create interactive artifacts and experiences with a variety of collaborators. I also publish writings, and I keep a blog.
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I like drinking water, especially when I'm really thirsty. Sometimes I like to pretend to be an Olenellus fremonti evolving into an Olenellus mohavensis, simply for the creative stimulation - although I usually cant walk for days afterwards. I've recently taken up an interest in amateur brain surgery, although i find it so hard to find volunteers. I enjoy socializing; but am equally happy with my own company; and can easily keep myself entertained for hours, both mentally and sexually. I'm fascinated by space, the universe, cosmology, quantum mechanics, string theory etc. and would love to go to space and see all the planets and stars and pulsars and supernova - I mean for real, not when I'm on mushrooms. I like to touch people, in their most private places, and make them giggle or cry. I like pretty things.
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