Technology Bytes: 1000 Cellphones Play Tchaikovsky

10/25/09  Print This Post Print This Post    4 Comments   Popular   Written by Lola Akinmade
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Now cellphones are not just for lighting up concerts and stadiums at night.

Recently stumbled across this cool video produced by Vodafone. 1,000 cellphones along with 2,000 text messages play Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture in an innovative (yet disturbingly time-wasting) production.

Intrigued? There’s apparently a followup video that shows us how Vodafone orchestrated (pun intended) the whole thing in an Auckland, New Zealand studio.


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Lola Akinmade is the editor of Matador Goods. Read her articles, view her photography, and follow her travels at http://www.lolaakinmade.com

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  • Michelle Schusterman replied on October 25, 2009

    Crazy!

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  • Kathy replied on October 25, 2009

    Amazing that someone would 1) have the idea to do this and 2) take the time and energy to do it, although the finished product is pretty cool. However, being the age I am, I can never hear that clip of sound without thinking of a very old commercial for some kind of puffed cereal: “It’s the cer-e-al that’s shot from guns!” which showed cereal coming out of cannons to that music. Another question, why is some of my mental filing cabinet space taken up with this memory?

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  • Jamie Stewart replied on May 19, 2010

    What is the latest and most expensive cellphones this year ?:”‘

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  • Vanessa Bennett replied on July 12, 2010

    i am sort of obsessed with the latest cellphones on the market and i am always on the lookout”`~

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