Cell Phone Symphony: Tchaikovsky Played With 1000 Mobile Phones (VIDEO)

Vodafone NZ got a team to recreate Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture -- using cell phones.

Watch the result (and the making of the cell phone orchestra) below.

According to Wired, the installation required 1,000 cell phones, 52 ringtones, and 2,000 sent messages.

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Comments

[ie]

Half-witted attempt. They really could have done better....

[InofTouch]

This remind me of a simpson episode and the same reaction with comments around here

[dwill123]

What a waste

[cellopaddy]

100% agree. Poorly executed. Who wants to hear a cacophony that resembles music? Having 1000 cell phones 'play' together is useless if they're not playing together!

[argentino]

this is pretty pathetique...

[SolarPowerGuy]

Nudge nudge, wink wink. :^)

[ie]

say no MORE!

[ery]

One pathetic attempt for a viral ad campaign.

[vandrop]

Surprisingly, this really sort of sucked.

[oceanofconsciousness]

this dude has too much time on his hands.

[davemartin7777]

Not real.

Completely corporate advertising, the "geeks" were actors.

[InofTouch]

your saying there no such thing as a smart actor

[SupportTech2]

If I must say as a geek tech.......this is the biggest waste I have seen in a long time.

[L. Frank Urban]

what a loser. this dude hasn't gotten laid since 1987

[hbw3]

feel terrible about your comment, but i can't stop laughing

[InofTouch]

fail

[BryantG]

I'm kind of surprised at the negative comments. It's all just a bit of geeky fun.

[davemartin7777]

Geeky fun fail.

[Rrhain]

Because it wasn't any good. There was hardly any musicality in it. The set up made it appear that there would be an interesting visual to go with it as the phones turned on, but nothing was made of it. Who was the guy at the podium and what on earth was he doing? About the only clever thing was the use of the vibrating phones on the drum, but even that had no oomph to it with regard to the music being played.

So much potential completely wasted.

[ashelikescake]

This. They had to put the phones over a recording of actual music to make it sound like anything. Im not even sure the beeping from the phones resembles anything on its own.

[Bluesman48]

The logical extension of thirty years of decline in audio repeoduction.

[BryantG]

oh the virtues of analog...seriously.

[PghDemocrat]

Dude couldn't just download the ringtone?

[CherrySpring]

Lame.