The Prankophone is the gadget modern day Jerky Boys have been waiting for

by Jeremy Mersereau

November 4, 2015

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This phone-synthesizer hybrid will take your prank call hijinks to strange new places.

Russian artist Dmitry Morozov has you covered: he’s spliced together a phone and a synthesizer to create the Frankenstein tech monster every aspiring Jerky Boy/Longmont Potion Castler dreams of.

Dubbed the Prankophone, the device dials up a random person and creates and plays a unique melody algorithmically generated from the prankee’s phone number, to the amusement of the operator and their cohorts. The person doing the Prankophoning can hear both the music and the target’s bewilderment/anger through the attached speakers, while the person on the other end can only hear the synth tones, presumably leading to all sorts of hilarity (and inadvertent Close Encounters nostalgia).

“The sound from the Prankophone would be perceived as some kind of mistake, though in reality it is an individual and anonymous sound message, a micro-noise piece which is unique for each number it managed to reach,” Morozov says of his project. The Prankophone is just the latest addition to Morozov’s :vtol: project, which focuses on creating sound objects that focus on how people communicate.

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