The ringtones are ready and available for download here:
Thanks for your sounds!
88 mini-scores are available for pick-up at the Sound Device show, San Francisco. The scores instruct the participant to call a number, then hold their cell phone close to a certain sound, to record it as a "message."
The piece attempts to shift the act of listening from private to public, resulting in mp3 ringtones composed of disparate sonic fragments, which are diffused again, in new form, when a cellphone rings.
In 1966 Max Neuhaus presented Public Supply I at WBAI in New York, with callers sending their sound to the studio via phonecalls.