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Add your voice now! Dial 408-228-5848 or 408-CAT JUG 8
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See an Introductory Video of the Project |
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Technical Advice - If you make a call to the server after listening to this page and you want to hear your addition to the scene right away, you may need to reload the page and bypass the local cache to flush out the old version of the opera that loaded when you first opened this page. This article from the Wikipedia gives tips for how to do this on the various browsers you are probably using to view this webpage. Special thanks to Kalin Mintchev for all his great work and support |
as reviewed in the Some projects take audience participation one step further, allowing people to add voice, text or images to an artwork in progress. By dialing up another project, Cellphonia, a caller (presumably but not necessarily from the area) can join the chorus of a current-affairs opera. The libretto for that day, based on news feeds from The San Jose Mercury News, is voiced one line at a time; all the caller has to do is echo it back into the phone. The performance is recorded and automatically mixed with other voices. Later a caller can download an MP3 file of the song for playback on his own phone.
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