http://www.pophorn.net/stories Mobile Sonic Action! Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:06:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Pophorn Crew didn't have to spend ten weeks in Myanmar (Burma) to realise that free communication is not the highest priority of the current military government. (But people are so generous it's impossible to leave.) Mobile phones are used in the major cities but most rural areas have no ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2008/02/04/pophorning-in-burma/ Perhaps you didn't know that Pophorns are loud, idiosyncratic, klaxonish creatures trapped within the plastic confines of mobile phone shells? Now they look the part so now you know. We would also like to welcome the newest member of the Pophorn family. Corduroid Pophorn is a quiet but shaky ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/11/14/pile-of-pophorns/ Wall Street Journal called during the summer but they (wisely) chose a more photogenique artist for the cover of their special report on mobile music making. But media likes Pophorns too: Swedish Radio's Mitt i Musiken aired an interview with Pophorn-makers Erik and Magnus already in June. Svenska Dagbladet and ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/09/25/ink-and-air/ 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 ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/08/15/poppet-vj/ 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 ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/08/02/bora-yoon-straps-ophonines-in-nyc-concert/ Two proud UNSWORN Pophornists were awarded the Bjarne Nyquists Minnesfond scholarship at a sunny ceremony in Stockholm this weekend. Swedish soul hero Eric Gadd handed over the big diplomas after a brief Ophonine freestyle session. The late Bjarne was himself a very active creator in that fuzzy-bordered area of digital media, ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/06/18/pophorns-awarded-in-stockholm/ The official launch of the first Pophorn, the Ophonine, happened at two fine Colombian festivals. First we went to the Bogotrax festival in Bogotá, an independent laboratorio urbano featuring ten days of free digital music parties, VJ-spectacles and conferences on culture. Kids, rockers and ravers fiddled with the phones at ... http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/04/10/ophonine-pophorn-in-colombia/ The first Ophonine Pophorn prototype is ready for Colombian action! Thanks to Petter for lending us the W850. http://www.pophorn.net/stories/2007/01/30/ophonine-pophorn-demo/