Composer Tan Dun and YouTube Partner for Historic Performance
As The Phoenix Symphony has been out performing a string of Education Classroom Concerts this week at schools throughout the Valley, we thought we would take a look at a remarkable development going on right now in the greater symphonic world: The YouTube Symphony.
The simple fact you're currently reading a blog means you're probably web-savvy enough to know what YouTube is and what it's all about. But now YouTube, along with composer Tan Dun, is taking a giant step into the world of orchestral music complete with interactivity, collaboration and lots and lots of online video.
Here is how it works: interested musicians from anywhere can log into www.youtube.com/symphony and will be greated by a cheerful introduction from San Francisco Symphony conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas. Players then select their instrument and download a PDF document containing their instrument part for Tan Dun's brand new work, Internet Symphony "Eroica" (complete with quotes from Beethoven's original). After some practice, players are instructed to videotape themselves performing their part - the truly interactive part comes in the fact that a video of the conductor (Tan Dun himself) is available so that each player will be conducted and cued based on which part they selected. In essence, players are videoing themselves performing to a video - sounds right up YouTube's alley.
Once satisfied with their video, players then upload their performance to YouTube for the judges (and all the world) to see. A judging panel will review each audition video and form an orchestra from their selected finalists. This orchestra will then hold a summit in April at Carnegie Hall which includes a performance under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. If you're interested in firing up your video camera and submitting, you still have time: the deadline is January 28th.
With submission videos from Hong Kong to Glasgow, this is truly a global project allowing any computer-able person on earth to get directly involved with world-class composers, conductors and other musicians. What do you think of this effort to join the classic tradition of a symphony orchestra with the innovations of the modern world?
A video of the London Symphony Orchestra's performance of Tan Dun's Internet Symphony "Eroica" is below:
The simple fact you're currently reading a blog means you're probably web-savvy enough to know what YouTube is and what it's all about. But now YouTube, along with composer Tan Dun, is taking a giant step into the world of orchestral music complete with interactivity, collaboration and lots and lots of online video.Here is how it works: interested musicians from anywhere can log into www.youtube.com/symphony and will be greated by a cheerful introduction from San Francisco Symphony conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas. Players then select their instrument and download a PDF document containing their instrument part for Tan Dun's brand new work, Internet Symphony "Eroica" (complete with quotes from Beethoven's original). After some practice, players are instructed to videotape themselves performing their part - the truly interactive part comes in the fact that a video of the conductor (Tan Dun himself) is available so that each player will be conducted and cued based on which part they selected. In essence, players are videoing themselves performing to a video - sounds right up YouTube's alley.
Once satisfied with their video, players then upload their performance to YouTube for the judges (and all the world) to see. A judging panel will review each audition video and form an orchestra from their selected finalists. This orchestra will then hold a summit in April at Carnegie Hall which includes a performance under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. If you're interested in firing up your video camera and submitting, you still have time: the deadline is January 28th.With submission videos from Hong Kong to Glasgow, this is truly a global project allowing any computer-able person on earth to get directly involved with world-class composers, conductors and other musicians. What do you think of this effort to join the classic tradition of a symphony orchestra with the innovations of the modern world?
A video of the London Symphony Orchestra's performance of Tan Dun's Internet Symphony "Eroica" is below:
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