Press
Thanks to these kind people who gave One Hello World some press:
4/19/13 | One Hello World Named Jerk’s “Music Man of the Year”
4/15/13 | 2013 Webby Award Honoree in NetArt
3/19/13 | “The Listener” Nominated for an Independent Music Award
1/15/13 | One Hello World’s Debut Album “The Listener” Nominated for a SAMMY
6/11/12 | 5 Kickstarter Champs Share The Secrets to Their Success
Christine Erickson of Mashable.com
5/15/12 | Their Words, His Music
“[One Hello World] goes a step further by taking spoken revelations and placing them over equally moving musical pieces.” - Jessica Novak of Syracuse New Times
4/25/12 | The World’s Answering Machine
“… musically captures sorrow layered with longing…” - Jillian D’Onfro of Unfold Magazine
1/24/12 | One Hello World
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1/24/12 | One Hello World — место, где оставляют голосовые сообщения миру
1/22/12 | One Hello World: The Soundtrack to Your Voicemails
“Consider it the audio version of PostSecret.” - Christine Erickson of Mashable
1/19/12 | Dial Tones: Syracuse resident dials up new social media project
“The most distinctive aspect of One Hello World is that it’s completely participant-generated. The messages that callers leave are uninhibited, raw and completely personal.” - Gabriela Riccardi of The Daily Orange
12/30/11 | Max turns phone messages into songs on ‘One Hello World’ Site
- Mark Bialczak of The Syracuse Post-Standard [Newspaper]
12/28/11 | Do Your Thoughts Deserve a Soundtrack? Website ‘One Hello World’ Thinks So
“I cried when I listened to the “Dream Act” track.” - Summer Beretsky of PsychCentral.com
12/23/11 | A soundtrack to your thoughts
“A beautiful, inspiring track, whether it’s about a caller falling in love or of learning about a friend’s eviction…” - Jane Shin of Soundcloud.com
12/22/11 | An album of stories from people like you.
“It might be just the kind of catharsis you need…” - Hannah Simon of HolidayMatinee.com
12/13/11 | Outriders: Creators
“… using user-generated content to create something quite wonderful.” - Jamillah Knowles of BBC Radio
12/1/11 | One Hello World: The album
“I find the whole project quite remarkable.”- Roman Mars of PublicRadioRemix.org
11/23/11 | Projects in the News
“…an inspired example.” - Justin Kazmark of Kickstarter.com
11/20/11 | One Hello World is Creating An Album of Voicemails Set to Music
“…a powerful piece of art.” - Nancy Messieh of TheNextWeb.com
3/3/11 | One Hello World Composes Voicemail-Inspired Soundtracks
“Think of it as PostSecret for the ears.” - Max Blau of PasteMagazine.com
12/16/10 | Pensamientos con banda sonora
- LaVanguardia.es [Spain]
12/15/10 | One Hello World | Adding a Sountrack to Your Voicemails
“The neo-Rachmaninoff running the site takes that message and puts a fitting (and sometimes quite beautiful) musical score to your words, essentially turning your voice into a Morgan Freeman-esque narrative masterpiece.” - UrbanDaddy.com
12/13/10 | One Hello World: a soundtrack to your thoughts
“The idea behind it is as unique and work intensive as it’s brilliant. The result is a raw, honest and touching collection of art that delivers moving short stories of people’s lives.” - Nini Baseema of Lost At E Minor
12/12/10 | Do Your Panic Attacks Ever Grow Rosy in Retrospect?
“The result? An intriguing amalgam of personal stories and instrumental melodies. The completed tracks are moving.” - Summer Beretsky of PsychCentral.com
12/11/10 | Most Underrated Blogs of 2010
“The results have been astounding. Raw, honest, heart-wrenching calls have been turned into beautiful pieces of art. This blog really reminds us of what it is to be “human” and how incredibly touching art can really be.” - The Only Magic Left is Art on Tumlbr
12/7/10 | Text, soundtracks and assistants
“…creating a stunning atmospheric soundtrack to various strangers’ lives.” - Jamillah Knowles of the BBC
12/1/10 | One Hello World
“Is there something you’ve been meaning to say that might benefit from a little soundtrack to heighten the emotion, or colour the story?” - Q on CBC.ca
11/30/10 | One Hello World: Tuning the Human Condition
“… a touching project…”- Teddy Zavera of BrainPickings.org via the L.A. Times
11/26/10 | OneHelloWorld.com
“Surprisingly moving.”- b3ta
11/21/10 | onehelloworld[ks]
“The result of this unique social experiment is an often haunting, but always beautiful, melding of consciousness and art.”- no:coast::creative
11/5/10 | One Hello World [Page 38]
“… One Hello World will compose a song to accompany your message, and the results, posted on the website, are breathtaking.”- Dustin Deckard of NakedCity Magazine
11/3/10 | One Hello World, el site que pone banda sonora a los pensamientos
- Yorokobu.es
10/28/10 | One Hello World: An Interesting Concept
“… there’s something about the concept of anybody being able to contribute that makes it so intriguing.” - TheNeedleDrop.com
10/25/10 | One Hello World
“… its almost magic how some of these make you feel.” - MusicSavage.com
10/24/10 | One Hello World
“[A Stranger Paid for My Gas] will stay with you all day.” - Urban Outfitters Blog
10/21/10 | Radio Canada: Le tour de table des recherchistes
[Starting at 3:01] “It’s really a kind and moving approach.” [Thanks to Julie for the translation.] - Radio Canada: Le tour de table des recherchistes
10/18/10 | Setting a soundtrack to your thoughts
“[The tracks] are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but almost always intriguing and beautiful.” - Hannah of HolidayMatinee.com
10/15/10 | One Hello World — The Soundtrack to Your Thoughts
“… brilliant concept…” - Paula Kashtan of AOL’s Lemondrop.com
10/14/10 | WebBeat.TV #11
“An inspiring collection…” - Pelpina Trip of WebBeat.TV
10/12/10 | מחשבים בלי תקלות כדאי מאוד שתשכחו מזה
“It seems our world needs a hug.” [Translated] - Shay Ringel of Calcalist.co.il
10/12/10 | Tierscher Butler und virtuelle Muskeln
@ 2:17 - “[something in German] One Hello Wolrd [something else in German] Kansas [even more verbiage in German. Anybody want to help me out with the translation?]”- Jeannine Michaelsen of Ehrensenf
10/10/10 | One Hello World
“a small, brilliant, crowd-sourced project that feels like what might happen if you put instrumentation with the emotional intensity of Explosions in the Sky behind the sort of personal narrative that you hear on public radio - it’s This American Life meets Post Secret, and it is just beautiful.” - Melanie of The Ruckus Blog
10/6/10 | One Hello World
“I think it may be the best thing in the world right now.” - RemixRadio.org
10/5/10 | One Hello World
“The execution is exquisite…” - Barrett Golding of HearVox on KGLT
10/1/10 | ‘One Hello World’ Soundtracks Your Thoughts
“It’s always magical when the internet makes you feel more connected to humanity, and this is definitely one of those sites.” - Christine Friar of urlesque.com
9/21/10 | One Hello World
“Like a soundtrack to your thoughts, it’s always nice to know that someone is listening.” - Brooke Dowd Sacco of IncredibleThings.com
9/3/10 | Interview with creator of One Hello World
“Some of the voicemails are extremely personal and honest and the soundtracks add even more depth to the tracks.” - Rodney Brown of BayAreaNative.com
8/31/10 | Interview: One Hello World
“One Hello World is a great idea. We sincerely hope it gets some acclaim as the work is definitely worth it.” - JAS of BitterBalcony.com
8/27/10 | One Hello World - Soundtrack to your thoughts!
“In the latest (as of this writing) story, a young woman mentions that she would love for the moment of your death to be like sitting in a drive-thru watching the moments of your life and making new realizations you may not have had while in the moment. This track is the best yet and is really touching…” - JAS of BitterBalcony.com
8/25/10 | (316) 247-0421: Leave a Voicemail, Get a Soundtrack to Your Thoughts
“One Hello World is a cool, small-scale, crowd-sourced musical narrative project.” - Gabriella Levine of Motherboard.tv
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