Title: QR Code Symphony
Artist: Taylor Phillips
Materials: premade cards, participant cell phones
Throughout the day, cards containing QR codes will be passed out, each representing one of several instruments in a jazz ensemble. When the QR code is scanned using a smartphone, the phone will be directed to a page containing a musical track played by the instrument represented on the card. When played together, the individual instrumental tracks on each page form a complete jazz song. This way, when multiple festival-goers with different instrument cards scan the code, each of their phones will act as a jazz instrument, with the individual tracks blending together into a complete song. An embedded clock in each page will cause the music to play at predetermined times during the festival (ideally between sets on the main music stages), allowing the tracks to be synchronized across all of the phones. Festival-goers will be encouraged to group up and find others with different cards in order to complete the song.
