The Youtube Symphony orchestra premieres today!!!

A while ago, this guy, Tan Dun, posted a video of an orchestra playing a piece he wrote. He posted the music sheets for it and challenged everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, to play the piece with the instrument of their choice. No boundaries.


Audition videos poured in with every instrument imaginable, even a saw! The videos were reivewed by a board of judges and the winners got to go to NYC and play in the Youtube Symphony Orchestra Summit, which was fancy words for a big ass concert.

That concert was 3 hours long. We can skip that.

But THIS video is the coolest part of the whole process. Of all 3,000 submissions, the 96 winners and their instruments were complied in a digital orchestra. It's this montage of all the music overlaid and it's pretty amazing to hear all of the instruments, played by random people all over the world, played at once due to technology. Wicked cool, right?

I geek out over cool stuff like this, and this is veeeeeery cool. It's one of those "music-joins-everyone-across-the-globe" things. It kind of gives me goose bumps, unless that's really dorky. You can forget I ever said that.

Still, CHECK IT OUT!!!