Education Projects

Classical music at your fingertips - virtual reality at the concert
Attending a concert is a feast for the senses - an experience that touches, inspires and evokes memories. For many years, people have been going to concerts and enjoying the classical music repertoire. But with increasing age and reduced mobility, getting to the concert hall often becomes a hurdle. This is where the Basel Chamber Orchestra comes in - bringing the concert experience to where people live today: directly to the retirement home. This is made possible by the use of modern virtual reality technology.

Music that moves
Bringing more than 40 musicians - an entire orchestra - to a retirement home is almost impossible to organise and finance. But in order to recreate the feeling of a live concert, two musicians from the Basel Chamber Orchestra visit the centre wearing a dozen pairs of VR glasses. They greet the residents personally, talk about their work and discuss the orchestra with them. What is special about this is that the same musicians who lead the conversation also appear later in the VR production as avatars - welcoming the audience to a concert in the virtual city casino. This creates an emotional, personal connection and a new form of encounter between the audience and the orchestra.

In co-operation with the Bürgerspital Basel