Isn’t it 1812 from tchaikoswki?

Posted at 10:19 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by Dave

This must have used up a lot of credit.

Posted at 10:25 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by bearchild

Inspired by this old project?

http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/

Posted at 10:35 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by Someone

I would have imagined they’d set up their own private network somewhere in the next room. you’d need absolute network priority so think smaller. or even wired. And i heard tchaikovsky also.

Posted at 10:40 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by Dan Fruzzetti

yeah, pretty much what he said. if you’re the company providing the service to hundreds of thousands, one would think you’d have a lab set up. let’s face it – if I were going to try to accomplish this same thing, that’s how I’d do it to, wouldn’t you?

Posted at 10:44 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by Daley

It’s an arrangement of a few different pieces, I think. I heard some Tchaikovsky in there as well.

That is a pretty cool project, though. I’ve had dreams of doing the same thing with one of the computer labs at school(each computer playing a part for a different instrument).

Posted at 11:02 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by Skyler

I seriously doubt this could work with regular messages. It’s definitely a lab setup. A good one though :)

Posted at 12:45 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by darkore

I guess they could have used their own microBTS to manage all the phones, and eliminate any conflict between non-participating handsets.

Posted at 12:48 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by Rogan Dawes

The making of video specifically states they had to do this between 1 and 6 am and the intro text specifically states they did it during off-peek hours. I would have to think then that this was done on the public network rather than a private lab. That is what make this truly impressive.

Posted at 1:07 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by John C. Reid

Its vodafone not vodaphone

Posted at 1:56 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by yea g

I spoke with the director of this ad on Wednesday. I kept asking how they possibly could have synchronized that many cell phones… and he gave me a bunch of reasons already mentioned here (using a public network at off hours, etc). He finally admitted “it really only worked about 30-40% of the time, so we had to do a fair bit of post production”. He also had never heard of Golan’s project (the flong link above).

Posted at 2:22 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by Kyle McDonald

What about a bluetooth network interconnection to manage all this, It could have been better I guess …

Posted at 2:26 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by LogicBloke

doesn’t any of you know how a story/narrative is developed?
“the making of” is also an advert, it tells you a storry while, quite literrary, flashing the product in your face. apparently they decided that this storry worked better.
surly it got you talking about the product, it also got you feeling good, how your smarter then the companies scientists, you feel familiar with it.

videoculture friendly extensive explanation:
http://www.archive.org/details/the.century.of.the.self

Posted at 3:33 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by harc

It’s mostly the 1812 Overture, but they’ve taken bits and pieces out of it.

Posted at 4:11 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by sl

Go NEW Zealand

Posted at 7:24 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by Wonginism

@DAVE, yeah, it’s 1812 Overture, not sure if that was Tchaikovsky or not.

Posted at 5:14 pm on Oct 25th, 2009 by Eric

The making of Vodafone Symphonia

Posted at 7:52 pm on Oct 25th, 2009 by Kyle

Wauw worlds biggest collection of shitty phones.

Why do we expect that our phone will break after 2 years?

Why do we accept that?

I have a Nokia 1100 from 2003 and it still works, still has longer battery life than most modern phones. It has fallen into a pool and still works. I’ve dropped countless times, even flung it across a room once or twice.

And it has Space Impact+ :-)

Posted at 2:29 am on Oct 26th, 2009 by Gert

These are clearly parts of Overture 1812 by Tsjaikovksi, at least thats how you write it in Dutch. The Germans write Tschai–. In Englisch its Tchai–, and a y at the end. French and Italians write it completely different; Apperently only the Russians know how to write it correctly :)
BTW the overture has nothing to do with Willem Tell. The piece was written to commemorate Russia’s defense of Moscow against Napoleon’s advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino in 1812.
The overture is best known for its climactic volley of real cannon fire and ringing chimes.

Posted at 2:56 am on Oct 26th, 2009 by Peter

Its Vodafone not Vodaphone guys…

P.S. Go Kiwi!

Posted at 4:25 pm on Oct 26th, 2009 by defyboy

It’s a ripoff of http://www.vimeo.com/1109226

Posted at 11:17 pm on Oct 27th, 2009 by John Thomas

If you’re going to do something clever with music, at least make sure it’s in time!

Poor effort.

Posted at 9:15 pm on Nov 8th, 2009 by David