Take a peak at the screen behind this small “Heart Chamber Orchestra.” Those visuals are generated by a series of electrocardiograms and wires attached to the musicians. Their heartbeats create the visuals, which become increasingly powerful as the piece unfolds.
The Street Orchestra iPhone app is like a simple version of Rock Band that lets you play classical music with up to 200,000 synched iPhones. Simple, classy, and free.
Whoever said recorded music doesn’t have the same intensity as a live performance should meet Lead Sound, the Japanese company behind the Sympho Canvas virtual orchestra. Forty-six speakers are arrayed in a concert hall similar to the placement of instruments in a real orchestra and each speaker “plays” a discrete track. Four more fill in human voices and the rest add extra audio to improve the sonic facade. While this seems like an obvious experiment, it’s actually really really creepy, too, a totally still room brought to life with the music of ghosts.