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Are you playing your phone... or is your phone playing you?

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"We know who you are, we know where you've been, we can more or less guess what you're thinking about" (Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)

In CLOSE CALL, your smart phone becomes a musical instrument. You are no longer a passive audience member but a musician, joining an infectiously energetic band with three drummers.

Loops of your voice, solos, beats: with the special app CLOSE CALL LIVE anything is possible. Download and play along with the band, your phone can do more than you think!

But then… your telephone is hacked and the app starts to live a life of its own. Are you playing your phone, or is your phone playing you?
CLOSE CALL is also about your smart phone. Do Facebook and Google have the right to know everything about you? Do you also check your phone 221 times a day?
Do you suffer from dead battery anxiety? What effect does that have on you? The interactive concert CLOSE CALL makes your aware of the power of your smart phone in a unique way.

The app CLOSE CALL LIVE is free to download in the App Store (iPhone) and Google Play (Android).
Click on ‘app’ for more information and download links.

Take your phone with the to the concert, armed with the app and a full battery.

CLOSE CALL is the new music production of composer Arthur Wagenaar (Susies Harlock, Stads/Einder, Tafel van Vijf, Orkater).

Audience reactions: “Wow! That shit works!” “This is scary!” “We were a real orchestra!”
Press on earlier works: **** A production that bangs and explodes (Theaterkrant)
**** On the edge of your seat, thanks to the music (Parool)
**** Original theatre from musicians that have something to say (Volkskrant)

Credits: Arthur Wagenaar: concept, composition, text | Laurens van der Wee: app | Laurens van der Wee / Joep Hendrickx: phonemaster | Musicians: Marijn Korff de Gidts, Boy van Ooijen, Tjalling Schrik - drums; Sarah Jeffery / Verena Barie, Dodó Kis - EWI; Lotte Pen - tenorsax; Matthias Konrad - trombone; Axel Schappert - bass trombone | LABland: visuals, costumes | Stefan Hendriks: supporting programming | Gijs Oomkes: sound | Geert van Boxtel: dramaturgy | Rutger van Otterloo: business leader | Annemarie Bakker: producer | Bart Karpe: PR | Janco van der Kaaden: website

A production by Stichting Goed Bezig! in collaboratie with Gaudeamus Muziekweek

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