Make a Tone
Check the Locally Toned Calendar for Tone-Making and Recording Sessions
Phone-in-a-Tone
1. Dial 412-837-4028.
2. Follow the voice prompts. Be prepared to state your name and the street address or general location where you are recording the audio (via your phone), and then be ready to record the sound which you'd like to turn into a ringtone.
3. Hang up.
2. Follow the voice prompts. Be prepared to state your name and the street address or general location where you are recording the audio (via your phone), and then be ready to record the sound which you'd like to turn into a ringtone.
3. Hang up.
What happens next?
Your audio files will be sent to Locally Toned's cloud server where
they'll be considered for inclusion in the project based on clarity of
audio and the following criteria:
Audio content must be copyright free (i.e., original compositions or audio which exists in the natural world), and tone duration will be 30 seconds or less. Tones are to be shared with others, so content should not be too personal. For example, a recording of someone’s mother on an answering machine saying, “Pick up the phone, Fred, I know you’re home!” won’t work. But, “Pick up the phone, I know you’re home!” could work as a ringtone that many people might wish to own.
Audio content must be copyright free (i.e., original compositions or audio which exists in the natural world), and tone duration will be 30 seconds or less. Tones are to be shared with others, so content should not be too personal. For example, a recording of someone’s mother on an answering machine saying, “Pick up the phone, Fred, I know you’re home!” won’t work. But, “Pick up the phone, I know you’re home!” could work as a ringtone that many people might wish to own.
Get a Ringtone
- 1. Select a tone from either the "Browse Tones" or "Tones Map" tabs.
- 2. Each Tone Detail page allows users to download or send tones directly to their cell phones (standard rates for receiving MMS messages on your cell phone apply).
Make a Ringtone
What is Locally Toned
Locally Toned is artist T. Foley's public art/original ringtone creation project. A not-for-profit venture, it creates original ringtones, and then provides free distribution via the Web and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). This art project utilizes the airspace as public property for purposes of sonic transmission--the work “performs itself” when Locally Toned participants receive calls on their cell phones. The goals of the project are technological empowerment, community service and the substitution of a system of shared creativity for one of commerce (the distribution of music industry ringtones). The project was realized and supported within deeplocal’s Old and New Media Residency program (with additional support from co-host Encyclopedia Destructica).