Gallery: Meet the Cyborg Teaching Musicians How to Play Color, Not Sheet Music
Image: Vodafone01In partnership with Vodafone Harbisson records the colours of Barcelona's Palau de la Musica using mobile technology and composes a unique score (1)
Neil Harbisson is a colorblind artist who conducted the first concert using colors instead of notes. Here, he's capturing the colors of Barcelona's Palau de la Musica, the concert's venue, which he then translated into a musical score.
Image: Vodafone02Colour blind musician Neil Harbisson teaches a young choir to hear and play colour in the same way he does in a world first made possible by Vodafone (1)
Harbisson, who listens to colors through an eyeborg implanted in his skull, taught a youth choir and quartet how to translate colors into notes. Each color we see has a frequency that emits a high-pitched note.
Image: Vodafone03Neil Harbisson conducts the Palau's Youth Choir and the Catalan Quartic String Quartet performing a score based on the colours of Barcelona's Palau de la Musica
During the concert, Harbisson played conductor/light technician, changing the colors on stage to prompt the musicians to change notes.
Image: Vodafone04Colour blind Spanish artist and musician Neil Harbisson uses music to 'hear' colour and teaches orchestra and choir to play based on same principles (1)
Harbisson with his eyeborg.
