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An excerpt from a performance of Mandala 5 using instruments collectively known as the Pocket Gamelan - mobile phones reprogrammed for groups of non-experts to play music. In performance phones are swung to produce Doppler shift or used as remote control devices to affect sound made by flying phones. The Pocket Gamelan was developed by Greg Schiemer for a series of compositions which allow players to experience microtonal scales devised by contemporary tuning theorist Erv Wilson and 8th Century theorist Al Farabi. Programming: Greg Schiemer and Mark Havryliv; players (from right counter-clockwise): Mark Havryliv, Terumi Narushima, Eva Cheng and Damien Lock; archive: Aaron Hull; funding: Australian Research Council 2003-2005.