Orchestra makes music from thin air
This week quantum physicists, philosophers, arctic explorers, rappers and comedians have gathered in Oxford for the TED Global ideas conference with the theme of "The Substance of Things not Seen".
While most will be trying to put their ideas into words the Radio Science Orchestra will tackle the theme using "space controlled musical instruments".
The group took time out of a rehearsal to show some of their instruments that make music from light and thin air.
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Comment by Paul on September 14, 2009 at 3:59pm -
That was great - had my 4yr old Thomas enthralled. The Beamz was like watching an old episode of Star Trek when they were entertained on a planet with futuristic or off world instruments.
I agree Dr Who sounded great, hope for more clips like this on the site.
Cheers Chris & Bruce.
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Comment by Devin Starke on September 13, 2009 at 8:19pm -
Cool video. Beamz looks interesting, basically appears to be a new type of midi controller, wondering if it could be used to trigger anything other than pre-programmed Beamz sounds. But then how would you control pitch and so forth? So cool to see the band grooving on Doctor Who. Great stuff, thanks for sharing this with us, Chris
By the way, nice Revox, Bruce. PR99 MK1? Classic!
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