Turn off, tune in: Theatre, concert fans forced to go phone-free | Malay Mail

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NEW YORK, Dec 12 ― When Adam Weiss arrived at a New York theatre to see a Broadway show, he was dismayed to learn he would have to lock up his cell phone. The team behind “Freestyle Love Supreme”, an improvisation comedy show co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda of “Hamilton” musical fame,...

Mobile phones are locked into Yondr pouches before people enter an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City November 22, 2019. — AFP pic

Pop icon Madonna and comedian Dave Chappelle are among the performers who have latched onto the commonly used Yondr system. “There’s this feeling nowadays ― is there something better that I’m missing?” he said of society’s smartphone addiction.Considering the ephemeral nature of improv performances ― which can involve audience participation and a tendency to get vulnerable or profane ― the elimination of phone recordings allows actors to get real and audiences to tune in, he said.

“People need to have some reasonable expectation of privacy, even in the public sphere,” he told AFP. Today, the 33-year-old CEO himself has renounced life with a smartphone and communicates via an old-school flip phone, saying he simply “had too many sensory inputs”.The New York Philharmonic is testing the Yondr system, and a listening installation at the Brooklyn Museum also requires phones to be locked.

 

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