“An upcoming series of applications that transform your cellphone into various musical instruments. With the Ophonine you can record and play sound loops with a simple press of a button […] The mobile is not just a phone – it’s a powerful and very portable multimedia computer. By downloading a piece of software to your phone everyone could be walking around with a set of musical instruments in their pocket!” says Unsworn representative Erik Sandelin. ”Unsworn don’t see people as passive consumers but as active creators or protagonists who put a lot of effort into making personal technologies truly personal. The future of mobile audio is not just about downloading ringtones – but in creating your own music, actively remixing the world you live in. The Ophonine Pophorn is based on Unsworn’s interactive sound art installation, the Four Ophones, which has been touring the world the last years: from galleries in Tokyo and Paris to Central Park in New York and the Ars Electronica festival in Austria […] The Ophonine Pophorn software run on most new mobile phones and will be available for free download from www.unsworn.org/pophorn in May 2007 […]”
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