The World: Jin Hi Kim plays the Komungo

There are millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world, and Charles Hazlewood is determined to give them a platform. Watch the debut performance of the British Paraorchestra at TEDxBrussels.

a nuclear safety team in Sweden teamed with composer Axel Boman and musician Kristofer Hagbard to create the Radioactive Orchestra, an ambitious project based on the actual movements of radioactive isotopes -- -- variants of an element with slightly different atomic weights.

The orchestra consists of a Web interface where you can create your own melodies that use isotopic frequencies -- and visualize how radioactive energy moves.

The orchestra consists of a Web interface where you can create your own melodies that use isotopic frequencies -- and visualize how radioactive energy moves.

At the TEDGlobal Conference, Imogen Heap debuts futuristic gloves that let her compose, arrange, and perform music on the fly.

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 in late September 1909

Musical innovator Andrew Bird winds together his trademark violin technique with xylophone, vocals and sophisticated electronic looping. Add in his uncanny ability to whistle anything, and he becomes a riveting one-man orchestra.

The musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra and their management settled a strike on Tuesday that lasted little longer than a quick scherzo but made clear the tensions raised by difficult economic times across the orchestra world.

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But the instrumental sounds and full 100-voice choir that Smith then coaxes from the machines, using a Nintendo Wii controller as his conductor’s baton, sound surprisingly acoustic, live, and real. Smith is quick to point out that the effect does not yet equal the experience of, say, a night at Symphony Hall, but the advancing technology of digital orchestras is rapidly getting closer.