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The Lost Sounds Orchestra plays at GÉANT launch event

 

As part of the GÉANT Launch Event and ASEM (ASIA-Europe Meeting) workshop Gala Dinner, a unique performance (viewable on EGEE’s YouTube channel) linked dancers from the Arts Exchange in Kuala Lumpur and musicians from The Lost Sounds Orchestra playing in Stockholm, creating a virtual stage to deliver a unique combined performance for both audiences.

Utilising the high-speed 2.5 Gbps link between the pan-European GÉANT and recently expanded Asia-Pacific TEIN3 research networks, the demonstration spanned a distance of over 9,300 km to link dancers and musicians for one seamless performance. The musical score included the sounds of the Epigonion and the Barbiton - two ancient Greek instruments from the first century, whose sounds were lost to us. They have been recreated by the ASTRA project, using the GÉANT network.

The music was written by Domenico Vicinanza, and performed by the Lost Sounds Orchestra. The dance belongs to the Svarnabhumi Studio, choreographed by Zubin Mohamad and performed by dancers from the Arts Exchange in Asia.

The Lost Sounds Orchestra, revives long-gone instruments such as the epigonion, barbiton, syrinx, salpinx and aulos, by using grid computing techniques, with EGEE middleware, to model sounds not heard for centuries. The accompanying image is a rendering of the 3D model of the barbiton (courtesy of VisArc Studio/ASTRA).

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