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| BTW, here is the link to my performance at the 
Seattle "Is That Jazz?" festival this last week. I tried something different this time. I hooked my 
cell phone up to my audio interface, so that anything that came out of it would 
be proocessed and looped like my guitar. Then I put a sign on the stage with my 
cell phone number. As I entered the stage, I instructed the audience that if 
they were so inclined they could call my number, make noises, push buttons, 
talk, whistle, etc, and that not only would it come through the PA, but I would 
interact with it to make it a collaborative performance. Well, it was a total success and loads of 
fun!  I got tons of calls from the approximately 50 or so audiences 
members, and all the calls were processed and randomly looped along with my 
guitar. There were many times when I was actually playing duo with an unknown 
audience member for 2-3 minutes. It was so much fun, and it made me laugh and 
smile many times during the performance. Some folks even sent me text messages 
with humorous comments, or asking me to do something again, etc. Anyway, it was just a test to see if it would work. 
I now plan to assign different tones to my text messages and calls, so that 
I can write a max/msp patch that will do different things with those signals, 
like looping, or turning on a certain effect and so on. I've already 
written a patch that will convert a cell phone call into randomly changing my 
effect selection. Lots of potential here.  Kris |