Jetzt 3 Stunden gratis mit dem Internetz telephonieren.
Now! 3 Hours of free phoning with the Internet
abstract
a public phone is created at lindengasse 1070 vienna -- just in front of our studio. people are able to talk in the phone and listen to the phone, listen to themselves, the stream and talk in the stream through the phone. the phone will not ring, though.
concrete
the situation in the lindengasse is as follows: it is located in vienna near the shopping mile style mariahilferstrasse. here, the trucks that deliver the wares stop. people living close by are mostly old and have lived here their life long. the building we are in will be destroyed by the end of 2002. another garage will be built. the old people are angry
pragmatic
we transfer the responsibility of the content itself to the public. maybe it works. maybe not. maybe no one cares. maybe 100 of voices are heard. yet anything happening or not happening is of more significance than any performed piece. pure and direct.
technical
the phone was altered technically to be connectible to a normal soundcard. it is possible to send any mono audio signal to the handle and receive a mono signal from the microphone. it will be connected to a mp3 server via pure data (pd). we will give slight feedback(with a bit of reverb) to the user as well as stream content from radiotopia on the phone. this is maybe the most manual endpoint of the whole project (it is in your hand)
