Mahler Symphony No. 9, 3D Music and Visual Art Synthesis at CSN Planetarium

Ladies and Gentlemen’s, we are glad to announce that Sound Reproduction is no longer only a complimentary part of music expression but can be its main creative element where timbres of electronic instruments can be used to perform the real classical masterpiece in the new orchestration of the composition and in confirmation of that please enjoy Gustav Mahler Symphony No.9 - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality Virtual Synthesis.

Modern recording techniques have come alarmingly far in just a few short years. However, as often as pop, rock and even Broadway cast recordings were 'assembled' in the halcyon days of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's, even after the advent of hard drive recording, you could count on one genre to preserve at least a semblance of the 'live' ensemble experience, and that was of course classical music. Not anymore. Choral composers like Eric Whitacre have pioneered the idea of a 'virtual choir' where people separated by continents are able to 'join together' to sing via such media as YouTube. And now we are introduced to an 'assembled' synthesized orchestra under the 'virtual baton' of Alexander Jero accompanied by surrealistic Fulldome video imagery. Jero recording instruments separately then brings them by sections, and records them. He then assembles the final presentation in the mixing room in 3D surround sound. It's an unusual approach for a genre as hopefully organic as classical music, and listeners' reactions may be colored by the knowledge that high tech wizardry has at least helped to craft the architecture of any given performance.

Mahler died in May 1911 without hearing his 9th Symphony Performance, that will be an inspiration to dedicate synthesized version of the symphony to the farewell of the composer.