We did a project with BBC Proms last year that used Twilio. As part of a
wider programme around the John Cage Prom, we worked with theatre director
Tim Hopkins to find unusual ways for people to experience the Cage's work,
and one of these was the John Cage phone line. We set up a Twilio phone
line that people could call; an actor playing John Cage answered the phone
and issued several instructions, and then people had the option of "leaving
a message" containing silence or ambient noise. These messages were then
brought together in a new composition by contemporary composers Sound
Intermedia, which you can hear here:
http://promsmusicwalk.com/audioclip/where-you-are-variation-1/
Twilio was pretty easy to work with. The big challenge was designing the
experience so that it was easy to use and understand and we had a few
technical glitches to start with around server reliability. It was also
pretty cheap to run.
This was a really lovely project to work on. We settled on a phoneline as
the most accessible way of capturing user-generated content for people who
might be walking around the South Kensington area (as part of the 'Cage
Walk'), without having to rely on 3G or QR codes.
--
Rachel Coldicutt
Caper
Studio 2.1
Rockwell House
10-14 Hewett Street
London
EC2A 3NN
07740 864 517
wearecaper.com | @wearecaper
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