re-rite, the Philharmonia Orchestra's Digital Residency, took a huge step forward last week at a high-tech recording session in Watford Colosseum. 29 high-definition cameras filmed 101 musicians from the Philharmonia Orchestra performing of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring from every possible angle – including four cameras attached to players’ heads.

On this page you can see some photographs from the recording session, conducted by the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Opening to the public at the Bargehouse on London’s South Bank on Tuesday 3rd November, the project will show every section of the Orchestra performing Rite of Spring simultaneously ‘as live’ throughout a four-storey warehouse building. The public will able to sit amongst the horn players, perform in the percussion section and take up the baton and control sections of the Orchestra as they play.

The ambitious project, made possible through the support of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, is the brainchild of the Philharmonia’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who has developed the concept with the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Digital Department.

Being inside an orchestra, experiencing the sensation of 101 players taking on this iconic music is one of the biggest adrenalin rushes, and one that I want to share with the world. Now we’re doing just that.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor

Photographs © Benjamin Ealovega

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