Cellphonia: WET is an ongoing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) post-modern single-song opera about the world's water crisis where the participants sing karaoke style into their cellphones and the resulting performance of all singers is mixed and delivered as an interactive sound/video installation. Visitors see projected info about the lack of fresh water in the world over wet imagery while hearing the Naiads' Lament performed by previous callers. At the end of the song, they hear an audio tag and see a flashing phone number inviting them to use their cellphones to sing along or join the Drip Chorus and make water noises. The callers' voices are automatically added to the four-minute looping performance. For people who are not at the venue, handouts, posters hung around the city, and the accompanying website give them directions how to add their own voices to the opera.
['Steve Bull', 'Scot Gresham-Lancaster', 'Kalin Mintchev', 'Terese Svoboda']
Cellphonia: WET