Alex Ross has announced that his current ringtone is John Adams’ Harmonielehre. Excellent choice.
As of a few days ago, mine is an old favorite: Steve Reich’s Music for a Large Ensemble. Before that, and I’ll probably go back soon, it was the announcement jingle heard constantly on Budapest trams and buses.
Check it out:
Now that I think about it… maybe Six Marimbas.
I thought I’d share something weird. Although I’m a little old to be horsing around with mobile phone ringtones, last year I did just that. Just for the heck of it, I took a tiny excerpt from a film score I’d recently finished, and created a ringtone out of it. I suppose I just wanted to see if I could do it. Turns out it’s a simple matter of placing any mp3 on a web server where a WAP-enabled phone can retrieve it. Go know.
Anyway, I’m still using it on my phone. It’s very gentle and soothing, whereas I’ve never heard another ringtone that didn’t irritate the bejeezus out of me.
So, have a listen. (Picture it repeating until you answer, of course.)
Please be my guest and download it to your phone from http://www.aboutthecomposer.com/audio/mk.mp3
