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Beethoven Symphony Project
About the project and who’s participating …

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David HeuserThe Fauxharmonic Orchestra is pleased to announce that composer David Heuser has won its first annual international orchestral composition contest. Heuser’s work stood out as particularly expressive, original, inventive and powerful. The winning composition, A Screaming Comes Across the Sky, was chosen from among eighty-six entries. Heuser will receive a cash prize as well as a recorded performance of his work by the Fauxharmonic Orchestra. The contest was open to composers of all ages, career stages, and nationalities.

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“the emergence of digital sound is really a watershed moment in the history of music. It enables us to harness technology in the service of musical adventure in ways that were unimaginable only twenty years ago. The computer is the ultimate instrument of the imagination.”

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Given technology’s inexorable march forward, how good will digital musical performances may sound by 2050? This chart says it in a nutshell:

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