We are currently busy giving faces to the Pophorns. Each Pophorn will get a distinct character - a Poppet - that reflects its sound, style and mood. This is an extremely early prototype singing along to its favourite sludge-metal band.

When local VJ-heroes TV-OUT found out about the responsive, visual potential of the poppetised Pophorns they immediately set up a camera rig for incorporating mobile phone graphics in their VJ sets at Swim Fast Club in Malmö, Sweden.

This is really cool since we like to think of the Pophorns as performance tools - visual as well as sonic. One of our favourite examples of this sort of mobile phone usage is the ingenious rock lighter. Phones in the air y’all!

We met Bora Yoon already in November 2006 while hosting the American Ophoniste Idol at fabulous Monkey Town in Williamsburg, NYC. Despite her amazing voice and obvious loopaholic talent the stern jury didn’t crown her as the official Idol that night, but she won our hearts when she emailed us about how the Ophones kept appearing in her dreams afterwards. Sonic dreams sure are rare treats.

After appearing in Wall Street Journal as the spearhead of mobile music making Samsung gave her a night of her own at snazzy Lincoln Center in the middle of Manhattan. After contacting us we provided Bora with early prototypes of the Ophonine Pophorn and she treated them just right by strapping them to a rotating turntable.The concert was a huge success with some 500 people in the audience. Afterwards the performer was surrounded by press flown in from the Samsung motherland. We wish Bora all the best for future Pophorning (and other) endeavours!Check out some more photos from the evening here and here. Or watch this clip with Mr Big Chin. You’ll see the Pophorns proudly dancing round the turntable by the end.