Ringtones, by Jeff Kolar

Ringtones

by Jeff Kolar

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1.	A Window 00:35	buy track
2.	Alarm 00:08	buy track
3.	Anticipation 00:34	buy track
4.	Beep Beep 00:17	buy track
5.	Bloom 00:46	buy track
6.	Bubble 00:52	buy track
7.	Cuckoo 01:08	buy track
8.	Dream 00:18	buy track
9.	Echo 00:12	buy track
10.	Error 1 00:37	buy track
11.	Error 2 00:20	buy track
12.	Froggy 00:38	buy track
13.	Jazzy 00:06	buy track
14.	Jellybean 00:05	buy track
15.	Just Fine 00:16	buy track
16.	Knock 00:20	buy track
17.	Loud Beeps 00:15	buy track
18.	Mirror 00:58	buy track
19.	Peal 00:49	buy track
20.	Pebble 00:30	buy track
21.	Polar Light 00:37	buy track
22.	Quietly Brilliant 00:43	buy track
23.	Ring Ring 00:58	buy track
24.	Simple Beep 00:11	buy track
25.	Soft Tune 00:18	buy track
26.	Spark 1 00:43	buy track
27.	Spark 2 00:12	buy track
28.	Spark 3 00:19	buy track
29.	Starting Tone 00:29	buy track
30.	Surface 00:28	buy track
31.	Transformer 00:31	buy track
32.	Vibration 00:17	buy track
33.	Water Drop 00:37	buy track
34.	Whistling 00:35	buy track

about

Ringtones is a set of operative ring tones produced specifically for use by mobile telephones. The audio addresses the compositional structures of ring tones and their functional use as transmission indicators.

Ringtones imitates the durational loops and rhythms found in the incoming and outgoing audio alerts. The audio tracks analyze different ring tone formats: Monophonic, Polyphonic, Truetone, Singtone, video ringtone; and other peripheral transmission languages: Morse code, MIDI.

Ringtones investigates the dominant cadence patterns (i.e. ring-pause-ring), and other audible signals like the dial tone, busy signal, off-hook tone, and recorder tone. The work also explores the proprietary encoding formats and data compression techniques predominantly used to reduce transmission bandwidth and storage requirements of audio data.

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released December 1, 2012

Performed, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered By: Jeff Kolar
Cover Art By: Jeremy Stephen Shedd

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Jeff Kolar Chicago, Illinois

Jeff Kolar is a composer, sound artist, radio producer, and curator. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2010.