If there's one technological divide that separates your Idolators from the twentysomething hordes, it's the concept of listening to music through a cell phone. The speakers are usually crap, the available memory wouldn't even hold a shelf of our CD collection, and, well, it just feels
wrong. But Nokia's announcement yesterday that it would be expanding its mobile music services piqued our interest, mainly because its forthcoming Music Recommenders service will use suggestions from independent record stores, like the Chicago stalwart
Reckless Records, and world-famous Arcade Fire aficionado David Bowie to make its picks. Although if one of them is the Bowie "
cyber song" he recorded a few years back, we're going to cry foul.
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Today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at musicians who use that concert-going scourge—the mobile phone—in their pieces, thus making the prospect of leaving the "ringer on" switch at shows at least a little bit less embarrassing for rude concertgoers. One of the composers profiled by the Journal is Bora Yoon, whose delicate cellphone-voice-handclap piece "Plinko" is currently streaming from her MySpace page. As it turns out, Yoon's creative juices only really get flowing around a particular brand of cell phone:
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