Towards a novel Mobile Phone Orchestra platform by Anders Lind

This exposition provide documentation and data from my artistic research regarding my work on mobile phone orchestra as a new performance practice for contemporary art music. How can an easy-accessed Mobile Phone Orchestra (MPO)-platform be developed to facilitate high-end, flexible artistic expressions suitable for concert hall performances?. Moreover, What artistic challenges and possibilities arises with a novel MPO-platform embracing novices as performers?. In my artistic research I explore these questions, which is integrated in the development process of mobilephoneorchestra.com. In particular, I highlight the main challenge of developing a performance platform which both is mobile and artistically rewarding, but still easy accessed for novices. Mobilephoneorchestra.com is developed as an online platform to enable large-scale concert hall performances of fixed polyphonic contemporary art music. A kind of philharmonic orchestra for electronic sounds, embracing novices as performers, using smart phones as instruments. Through an autoethnographic approach the research is carried out in multiple cycles, inspired by action research. In this exposition I will provide documentation and data from different cycles carried out within the project. All cycles include performances of music involving a MPO. Previous results of the findings show that the platform both is intuitive and easy to use for novices and has potential of providing flexible high-end artistic material and expression for concert hall performances. I specifically highlight the use of mobile music interfaces in combination with animated notation as a novel approach for a MPO-concept.

TWENTY TWENTY - ANIMATED NOTATION FOR MOBILE PHONE ORCHESTRA

The first cycle for the development of the platform included a performance of Twenty Twenty - a new composition for MPO and chamber ensemble. The MPO consisted of approximately one hundred schoolchildren between ten- and twelve years old. Two research questions permeated this first cycle: 1. To what extent can the target group perform the musical material of Twenty Twenty as a MPO?, 2. What conclusions could be drawn based on the results and related to the three criteria: easy accessed, mobile and artistically rewarding?

EXCERPTS FROM REHEARSAL OF TWENTY TWENTY:

MOBILE PHONE ORCHESTRA + CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

FIRST CYCLE

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TWENTY TWENTY - SCORE FOR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

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