Tchaikovsky’s Piece by Phones

Sony Australia smashed a PS3 slim into a Bravia LCD TV at high speed. Now, Vodafone NZ hired a production team to orchestrate cellphones into “playing” Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture.

The effort took 1000 phones and 53 different ringtone alerts, synchronized to recreate the famous classical piece. The resulting video is nothing short of amazing; you can also see the “making of” videos below.- by Stan Schroeder, Mashable.com

Musopen

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music.

All of the recordings on Musopen can be downloaded and or be embedded into your blog or website. The sheet music offered by Musopen is hosted by Scribd from where you can download or print the sheet music.-Mr. Byrne

Technology and Music

I wrote about the You Tube's Symphony Orchestra on a previous post.

The world's first collaborative online orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009. Selected by the YouTube community and several members of the world's most renowned orchestras, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra is made up of over 96 professional and amateur musicians from 30+ countries and territories on six continents and represents 26 different instruments.

YouTube presents the world premiere of the Tan Dun composition "Internet Symphony, Eroica" as selected and mashed up from thousands of video submissions from around the globe.

http://www.youtube.com/symphony

High School Venezuelan Musicians

They broadcasted 13 days ago at TED2009 via satellite from Caracas.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema.

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra (Sinfónica Juvenil Teresa Carreño) is the national high school age youth orchestra of El Sistema, Venezuela's groundbreaking, life-changing musical education program. To put this ensemble's musicianship in context, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela is the next step for many of these young musicians.

Muxical

Thanks to khokanson on twitter for sharing.

Muxical is a fun website where you can create music just by pressing "shift" on your keyboard and rolling the mouse over the grid. Music sounds of different instruments will come out every time your roll the mouse.

You Tube Symphony Orchestra

Join the world's first collaborative online orchestra.

Musicians from around the world are invited to audition for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.
The video entries will be combined into the first ever collaborative virtual performance, and the world will select the best to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in April 2009.

Music in the Classroom

I found this cool websites on Larry Felazzo's Blog :

I think is just amazing to work with in a music class on the middle school or high school. The Japanese Federation of Construction Contractors have created this website and it lets you build music with construction tools. Some parts of the website are in japanese language others are in english. But you are able to figure it out once you browse through the website.

Contrapunctus Variations is another cool website that lets you create musical compositions with your computer mouse.

Audio Music Tool

Try JamStudio to make your Music Classes even more fun!