A Distributed Youtube Orchestra
December 2nd, 2008 Posted in classical music, youtube
The almighty and benevolent gods of youtube are putting together an orchestra. You sign up, download the score, and record a performance of your part. Then the LSO mix together all the best ones and make some kind of funky uber-video from the submissions. However, that’s kind of just a promo for the main event. The really cool kids get sent to Carnegie Hall to perform “The Internet Symphony” (eugh) live under Michael Tilson Thomas.
I can’t decide if this is completely awesome or just a really elaborate way of arranging a regular audition. I think it’ll actually be more interesting to see how the video turns out than the live performance. That’s the part which is technologically new.
Of course, now I’ll probably find out that like fifty avant-garde composers already did this.
Main site here, PDF details here.
