MoPhO: Mobile Phone Orchestra of CCRMA
"do mobile phones dream of electric orchestras?"

directors
Ge Wang, Georg Essl, Henri Penttinen

ensemble

Steinunn Arnardottir | Mark Branscom | Nick Bryan | Jeff Cooper | Georg Essl | Lawrence Fyfe | Gina Gu | Ethan Hartman | Turner Kirk | Adnan Marquez-Borbon | Jonathan Middleton | Henry Penttinen | Diana Siwiak | Kyle Spratt | Ge Wang | Chris Warren

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The Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) is a new repertoire-based ensemble using mobile phones as the primary musical instrument. Far beyond ring-tones, MoPhO's interactive musical works take advantage of the unique technological capabilities of today's hardware, transforming phone keypads, built-in accelerometers, and built-in microphones into powerful and yet mobile chamber meta-instruments.

MoPhO was instantiated in 2007/2008 at CCRMA, Stanford University, by faculty member Ge Wang, Deutsche Telekom senior research scientist Georg Essl, and visiting CCRMA researcher Henri Penttinen, with CCRMA Artistic Coordinator Chryssie Nanou, 2007-2008 MA/MST students, and generous support from Nokia. MoPhO performed its first public concert in January 2008.


video excerpts

ET:Drone:Home (2008) by Ge Wang
(inspired by Dan Trueman's Droner for laptop orchestra)

TamaG (2008) by Georg Essl

The Phones and the Fury (2008) by Jeff Cooper and Henri Pentinnen



For more information and upcoming performances,
please contact Ge and/or Georg!