Improvising With An Entire Orchestra

US Ben Folds' challenge to Jacob Collier 28/03/25

Jacob Collier's latest video is an impressive feat: creating an improvised piece of music live with an entire orchestra. Inspired by a challenge from Ben Folds, Jacob seeks to create a piece starting by casting notes to each section of the orchestra, creating a wash of noise in the B Major scale. The piece develops, and is a marvel to behold - "Out of tune is where it's at!" - perhaps the future of music production will be verbal communication and gestures! Here's a bit more...

A few months ago, I was challenged to improvise a piece of music with an orchestra, with no plan, no sheet music, no rehearsal, and no prior discussion. Here's what happened.

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About the author [midierror]: midierror is co-founder of Potato Audio, he makes nifty Max For Live devices, award-winning Sample Packs and hosts the 'midierror meets...' interview series speaking with all kinds of people working in sound & music.

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