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Same but different. Each of the four musicians in the iPad Orchestra plays something different, but their instruments are identical: Apple’s iPad. In this video, the quartet — their separate parts identified only by the white letters on their black t-shirts — play a lovely rendition of Ilya Plauvonov’s Sweet Dream on a matching quartet of iPads.
It’s breathtakingly shot and edited, but be warned against watching this too early in the day: as the lullaby-like title of the song might imply, this is a very pretty and soothing composition that will get you ready for naptime.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
