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Mister & Mischief Proudly Presents
Answering Service
An intimate telephone experience that’s always there for you. Except right now.
Created as a way to deliver unique, thoughtful, wry, and amusing auditory moments via one’s telephone, Answering Service had a daily rotating selection of three different moments delivered via a classic automated phone tree.
A caller would call into the system and select one of four options: Inspiration, Commiseration, and Cohabitation. Each option changed each day, though the limits of the phone system being used meant that each option could be no longer than two minutes. (One could dial 0 for Information which was where we had the daily credits of contributors.)
The collaboration was essentially an artistic potluck calling upon colleagues from every corner of our lives: actors and voice over artists, prose writers, poets, and playwrights, musicians, comedians, astronomers, game designers and immersive experience creators, performance artists, family, and friends.
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The recorded material spanned the gamut of audio: original stories, selected readings, original songs, cover songs, short jokes, long jokes, mini-plays, monologues, a description of the show “Full House” from someone that has never seen it, and every-so-often an invitation to go out and look up at the constellations in the night sky.
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If you feel you’ve reached this message in error– welcome.