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Call with a Voice Mail Message (Main mailbox)
Time: October 08, 2007. 05:32:38 PM

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Time: October 06, 2007. 06:07:39 PM

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zeug — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:30:04 +0000

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Time: October 05, 2007. 06:29:36 PM

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Time: October 05, 2007. 04:05:35 PM

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zeug — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:50:02 +0000

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Time: October 05, 2007. 02:48:45 PM

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zeug — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:10:05 +0000

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Time: September 30, 2007. 03:10:27 PM

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zeug — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:15:02 +0000

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Time: September 28, 2007. 11:15:51 AM

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zeug — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:55:02 +0000

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Time: September 27, 2007. 12:56:24 PM

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zeug — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:45:04 +0000

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Time: September 26, 2007. 02:39:09 PM

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zeug — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:40:29 +0000

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Time: September 23, 2007. 01:40:18 PM

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zeug — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:00:03 +0000

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Time: September 22, 2007. 03:57:44 PM

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zeug — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:30:03 +0000

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Time: September 22, 2007. 02:31:15 PM

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zeug — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:05:02 +0000

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Time: September 21, 2007. 08:05:47 AM

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zeug — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:40:03 +0000

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Time: September 16, 2007. 04:41:02 PM

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zeug — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:15:03 +0000

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Time: September 16, 2007. 02:15:22 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:20:04 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 09:20:53 PM

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Time: September 14, 2007. 08:28:38 PM

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Time: September 14, 2007. 08:25:29 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:55:01 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 07:51:44 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:40:02 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 07:37:08 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:35:01 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 07:32:20 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:00:02 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 06:59:44 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:55:03 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 06:54:20 PM

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Time: September 14, 2007. 06:48:41 PM

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Time: September 14, 2007. 06:46:24 PM

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Time: September 14, 2007. 06:06:34 PM

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:00:05 +0000

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:40:01 +0000

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:15:09 +0000

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zeug — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:30:14 +0000

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Time: September 14, 2007. 12:28:50 PM

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zeug — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:50:02 +0000

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Time: September 13, 2007. 04:48:37 PM

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zeug — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:05:03 +0000

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Time: September 10, 2007. 06:04:38 PM

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zeug — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:05:02 +0000

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zeug — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:35:03 +0000

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Time: September 08, 2007. 04:33:29 PM

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zeug — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:35:04 +0000

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Time: September 08, 2007. 01:32:27 PM

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Call from unknown number

zeug — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:10:03 +0000

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Time: September 07, 2007. 06:11:23 PM

Video

Call from unknown number

zeug — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:36:23 +0000

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Time: September 07, 2007. 05:38:11 PM

Video

sending sounds to the Metaphonica Phonebook

cathope — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:42:38 +0000

About Phonebook BEAP 2007

Call into the Phonebook installation using one of the numbers above and leave a message at the prompt! It should appear here and in the Spectrum Gallery installation itself within 10 minutes.

Remember, when you call these numbers you activate the installation. If you hang up within 30 seconds, you do not incurr a cost.If you wait for the prompt and leave a message, your standard charges will apply. Call now, from anywhere!

Refresh this page to see the latest posts. Scroll down to see and hear them all.

PHONEBOOK: Perth 2007

cathope — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:30:32 +0000

BEAP 2007, September 14 – October 6
Spectrum Project Space, 221 Beaufort St, Northbridge WA

::web activity coming soon::

Principle artist – Cat Hope
Contributing artists:
Dr Malcolm Riddoch – web wrangler
Rob Muir – book curator.

DESCRIPTION
This installation has two components, a bookshelf full of carefully prepared talking books, and a web site full of instant, spontaneous and unedited talking books.
The installation is ‘activated’ by people calling one of 4 mobile phone numbers. The call activates the installation at the bookshelf. They may leave a message, which will activate the installation at metaphonica.com, which in turn adds to the bookshelf as it is played back into the installation by way of an RSS feed.
Four of the books on the shelf contain mobile phones, that when called play ‘ring tones’ made from readings of the parts of the books that were cut out to accommodate them (book readings). Another two books contain speakers that play back messages left on message bank (posts). There are 6 playing books on the shelf, amongst another 10-15 books.
RATIONALE
In this installation books are cannibalised by digital technologies - their contents are cut out and read aloud on call - sometimes they reproduce carefully prepared works, other times they reproduce the comments of anyone and everyone, without editing. One sound is carefully manicured by the artist, the other on the fly by the contributor.
Many books are now available on line, instantly retrievable for those who have the equipment to do so. Information is published to podcast by anyone and instantly downloaded - no editing or writing ability required, a different scenario to the way books are prepared. Are web sites, with their multi media delivery, the new books, the new information repositories we once considered libraries to be? This installation compares books and digital delivery of information, looking to the chance composition techniques of John Cage and and the cut ups of William Burroughs.

metaphonica now on moblog

cathope — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:14:10 +0000

go to http://moblog.co.uk/blog/metaphonica to see posts coming direct from metaphonica artists to the mobile phone blog page.

Phonebook Video

cathope — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:51:42 +0000

A test of anarchy media flv player

Confirmed?

zeug — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:50:05 +0000

have a ’smart playlist’ set up in iTunes ready to go…

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an-archos
community networks
Dr Malcolm Riddoch
zeug@an-archos.com
http://an-archos.com

balladen.mp3

testing the podcast loop in iTunes…

zeug — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:00:04 +0000

here’s another mp3 upload to the podcast. My iTunes is set to check
podcast subscriptions every hour and download all new mp3’s to play
in a playlist loop.

balladen.mp3

Test from entourage e mail program

zeug — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:45:04 +0000

balladen.mp3

Test from WAP enabled phone, using news_desk e mail

zeug — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:45:03 +0000

burroghs music.mp3

MP3 test from OSX Mail

zeug — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:15:04 +0000

Hi Cat and Rob,
just updated the moblog plugin to latest version. Heard some
interesting things re MMS and audio but will have to wait and see
until you two test it. Anyways, here’s an initial test from my OSX
Mail app with mp3 attached.
Cheers,
Malcolm

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an-archos
community networks
Dr Malcolm Riddoch
zeug@an-archos.com
http://an-archos.com

ufo56kb.mp3

Didactic for the Installation and more..

cathope — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:58:11 +0000

PhoneBook : didactic text

CALL THESE NUMBER TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE INSTALLATION
The call is free:

+4915118900484
+4915111127081

This installation consists of a 4 part composition than is interrupted and added to by people ‘calling in’ to it with their own telephones, using the numbers above. Mobile phones are fitted into certain books, and play readings of excerpts of the text that has been removed to make room for them. Here the mobile phones use their voice recording and playback facility without connecting to any ‘network’, other than the one they create by playing back collectively.
The ‘phoned in’ contributions feature interviews with William Burroughs, master of the cut up technique in literature, and John Cage talking to Morton Feldman; masters of things aleatoric when applied to music and sound works. These interviews are available from internet archives on a creative commons license.
The work contemplates the state of spoken word delivery through audio books, podcasts and telephones. Will they replace written formats? Are we a new generation of listeners?
Most of the books are ‘found, and many come from travellers who have left them behind before moving to their next destination, and represent languages that have made part of the artists’ experience when she lived in Berlin from 1990 to 1992.

http://www.metaphonica.com

more information

Readings from the books are from:
Fallaci, Oriana (1974) Intervista con la storia, 4th ed., Rizzoli, Milano
Schillmann, Heinz Ed. (1981) Unvergessene Balladen, F.Englisch Verlag, Weisbaden
Beard, Charles a. Ed (1928) Whither Mankind – a panorama of modern civilzation, 1st ed, Longmans, Green and co. London
Uhlmann, Irene and Hartmann, Ortrun Ed.(1982) Kleine Enzyklopadie Die Frau VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig

And the phones that ‘interupt” are in these books:
Lindemannn, Dr Hermann (1911) A Pocket Dictionary of the English and German Languages , 13th ed., Langenscheidtsche Verlagsbuchhandlug, Berlin-Schoenberg
Clark, Mary Higgins (1980) The Cradle Will Fall, Fontana, London

About books in Berlin

cathope — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:24:49 +0000

The idea that started the project PhoneBook was the search for my own books, lost in Berlin over 15 years ago.
The area where the studio is located is full of 2nd hand book shops. Many of them have books that travellers have left or traded, in many different languages. Perfect for Transit Lounge. They often leave books out front ‘kostenlos’.
So now i have decided to chose a mixture of books in languages that reflect the nationalities of people with whom i shared my time in Berlin. Italian, German, English and American.

About books in Berlin

cathope — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:24:26 +0000

cut out’s from the books so far

draft bookshelf 15-02

cathope — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:23:58 +0000

Here is how the bookshelf looks. I like the fact it is 2 way and you can hear it as well as access it ‘front and back’ so to speak.
There will be 6 books with mobile phones fitted. 2 will play through over 80 minutes, 2 will loop, and 2 will be available to be called and ‘interupt/add’ to the composition.
There is quite a drastic spacialisation of the sound which is great.
But there are still some unanswered questions; do i want people tobrowse the books? Search for the phones? Set up a reading chair (and if i do that, i should set it up with headphones too)?
I could even add a live podcast feed into one of the books, from my computer, by putting a small speaker inside. Or even headphones.
I have put up a sign looking for books to loan for the exhbition time, and fill the space in the shelf. It needs some oranaments too. Its made the residency space strangely homely.
So far the phones are included in a Womens Encyclopedia, a German - English dictionary, a trashy english language novel and a book of Hymns. I found an arabic book and if i can find someone to read the contents i will put a phone in there too.
Thanks katie hepworth for building the shelf.

phone numbers to call in Berlin

cathope — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:14:33 +0000

the opening event for phonebook is on the 18th February, from 8 - 10pm GMT+1 (between 3am - 5am 19th Febraury Perth time)
To be part of the installation by interuppting and adding to it, you can call either of theses number, its free:
+4915111127081 - Burroughs
+4915118900484 - Cage/Feldman

Your call will interupt the book readings with either William Burroughs, king of cut up culture; or an interview between John Cage and Morton Feldman - masters of things aleatoric.

Both these excepts have been accessed from audio databases and podcasts holding creative commons licenses.

cut up book text

cathope — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:37:15 +0000

cut up text here is some text made from what i cut out of one of the books that houses the phone. It is in German, like the book - but to give a bit of background…. its from a German WOMENS ENCYLOPEDIA published in 1978, and loosley (or rather, chopped-ly) refers to choosing colours for room decoration.
CLick on the link above to hear part of it.

cathope — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:36:42 +0000

cathope — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:35:19 +0000

Here you can hear a Phone Book sample
that makes part of the PhoneBook project

notes for Phonebook 11.2.06

cathope — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:24:57 +0000

Today i go to find wood to create the bookshelf. Phonebook is an installation of sounds from within books within a collection of books on a bookshelf. I have kept all the pages i have cut out to insert the phones, not sure if i will use them to create the sounds or not.
PhoneBook uses the same techniques as Phone Box to create the soundscape; ringoetones form a composition that is interuppted by the public. But there are technical difficulties with this here in germany, our phones international roaming does not cover Germany and they are locked to the network so cant use german SIM cards. But i have some some phones i can use, and the Australian phones will operate as MP3 players that do not go interupted.
Most recent idea is to use text from creative commons licensed audio books for the ‘ringtones’. I am fasinated with the new popularity of audio books rejuvinated by podcasting. But so far i have been decidedly dissapointed with the range of audio books available. i wanted to find books and poems but writers who have pioneered the cut up method, such as Burroughs, Gysion and even some Genesis P Orrige. But i have found interviews with these artists, as well as with other important pioneers such as Morton Feldman and John Cage. I may have to create my own audio books!
The next cruical step is to find the right books for the right audio content, and the right books to surround them. So far i have 2 german books ; one of peoms and the other an old encylopedia for women. Finding podcasts and audio books by women has been particularly difficult. I made a recording of Janet Cardiff’s talk at transmediale so may use that ; with her permission of course.