Mobile Phone Orchestra/NIME2008
Title of the work
MoPhO: Mobile Phone Orchestra Suite (MoPhOrCC)
Name (composer(s)/artist(s)/performer(s))
- MoPhO directors: Ge Wang, Georg Essl, Henri Penttinen
- composers: Ge Wang, Georg Essl, Jeff Cooper, Henri Penttinen
Institution or company
institution: CCRMA, with support from Deutsche Telekom and Nokia
Address
660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305
Email (one e-mail contact per submission)
ge@ccrma.stanford.edu
Year of composition
2008
Duration of performance
16' - 20'
Instrumentation
12 mobile phones (no external amplification)
Narrative description of the work
The Mobile Phone Orchestra is a new repetoire-based ensemble using mobile phones as the primary musical instrument. The MoPhO Suite contains a selection of recent compositions that highlights different aspects of what it means to compose for and perform with such an instrument in an ensemble setting.