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In this video, the micro-artist Mattewada Ajay Kumar, who hails from Warangal, a city in the south Indian state of Telangana, plays his micro-violin: a tiny functional violin, weighing 0.74 mg and all of 2 cm long, sculpted from gold. The instrument, which comes complete with four metal strings and a bow, took Kumar 11 hours to make - a process which required him to hold his breath at times in order to complete the finest details.
20,000 bees have been encouraged to make a hive inside a cello in order to create a musical soundscape
The cellist performed during the reading of the names of those who died at Ground Zero on 11 September 2001
The live performance was filmed at LSO St Luke’s in 2025, celebrating the composer’s 90th anniversary
The work features on The Bridgetower Project, which aims to highlight the legacy of Afro-European violin virtuoso George Bridgetower.
The ensemble performs Kaprálová’s song ’With a White Kerchief He Waves’, arranged by Xandi van Dijk
The violinist performs the first movement ’fields, mountains’ from Bermel’s work Spring Cadenzas, that also features A Far Cry, Project STEP and conductor Earl Lee
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