This weekend's opening of composer Tod Machover's
crowd-sourced musical collective
A Toronto Symphony: Concerto for Composer and City, which featured more than 10,000 contributions of sounds taken from Toronto's streets, was so successful it's getting the Edinburgh treatment.
STV Edinburgh reports, "Following the success of this event, Edinburgh will have its own piece of music reflecting the feeling of those who have visited the city."
Machover will also orchestrate the piece of music, entitled Festival City.
"Festival City invites all who love Edinburgh to reflect with me on how the city sounds through the memory of past visits, the intensity of current participation, the stillness of the city 'out of season' and the multi-layered complexity of performances, people and places during festival time. The goal is to create together a musical work that reflects the magnetic, magical and mysterious qualities of Edinburgh and its Festival," Machover says in the article.
In addition, the Toronto performance received international press.
BBC called the Toronto edition a "social media symphony" and reported that "On Saturday 9 March, residents were treated to a ground-breaking concert that was the result of an almost year-long project."
Machover is an American-based composer whose innovations in "hyperinstruments" have coined him the grandfather of Guitar Hero. He has been working with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on commission.
Read the full story
here.
Original source: STV Edinburgh