300 Android Devices Do A Decent Version Of Beethoven

What would you do if you had 300 Android devices ( and a whole maze of microUSB cables ) at your disposition ? If your answer was ‘ a digital beatbox rendition of Beethoven ’s 9th ’ , probability are you oeuvre in Google Japan ’s atomic number 59 division . Or you just have too much spare fourth dimension .

The Android Chorus ( ugh ) uses 300 phones , each running an Androidify character , to create a digital beatboxed version of the ‘ Ode to Joy ’ , the main motif from the last movement of Beethoven’s1824 9th Symphony . The installation will be on display from February 12th to February 15th at Omotesando Hills in Tokyo .

Despite being a blatant Google PR stunt , it ’s still an impressive bit of design — not just synchronise all 300 phones to lick at once , which ca n’t have been easy , but also hail up with a 300 - line arrangement of Beethoven ’s employment which can be played through headphone speakers and not sound like shit . And hey , it ’s a damn sight better than give your phoneits very own hip - hop musical theme Sung dynasty . [ VentureBeat ]