Thousands of phones all over the world performed synchronously Beethoven through an application developed in Barcelona. More than 9,000 people downloaded the application in more than 100 countries. At 11:11:11 hours (CET) the smartphones were remotely synchronized and performed as a global orchestra from 70 different countries. The aim was to show that the world must change and we have the main instrument for doing so: The collective will.
Massive Symphony: a free, volunteer-created app to enable mobile phones from around the globe to work in synchrony. Today, (11/11/2011), at exactly 11:11:11’111 a.m., all the mobile phones on which this app had previously been installed united to form the world’s largest orchestra, as mobile users joined together to perform 1 minute of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. (Map of the global performance)
This underlying theme of this initiative is cooperation:
Any positive change for our planet will require us to work together. People from all around the world collaborating, coordinating their efforts right down to the millisecond… what could be better?
The Massive Symphony began playing at 11:11 a.m., Central European Time (CET). Each user could choose to join this first performance, or wait for another performance, at 11:11 a.m. in their local time zone. The performances repeat every hour.
A real-time map shows the number of individual users in each country that have the app activated at any given moment.
More information:
http://www.massivesymphony.org/
Contact:
José Ignacio Latorre, Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB), and developer of massive synchronization technology for mobile devices
j.i.latorre@gmail.com
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