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A Symphony
of Ferraris
A live orchestra of Ferrari engines,
played across Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend.
4–6 December 2026  ยท  Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
Prepared for
Ferrari World Abu DhabiWeber ShandwickOmnicom
From
WithFeeling
The idea
Four to six Ferraris.
One piece of music.
No instruments.
Four to six stationary Ferraris become an orchestra, several times a day across Grand Prix weekend.
Rev an engine and it does not just get louder. It goes up the scale. That is the whole trick.
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Five cars lit by LED strips, a crowd filming on their phones
The creative thread, across all three
We reimagine the classics.
  • Out of copyright. Nothing to licence. No term, no territory, no renewals
  • You own the recording. We perform and record it ourselves, so the track is yours to use anywhere, for as long as you like
  • Everybody knows it in two notes. Nobody has to be told what is happening
  • Which is why it gets filmed. People share what they already recognise
Anything we have to clear, the anthem included, is the exception, and it comes with terms attached.
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01
We trust
the robots
We stop asking people to play the cars,
and let a machine play them instead.
Option 01 · We trust the robots04
02a
A driver
performance
Drivers in every car. One conductor. One very good backing track.
Nothing that a rehearsal can’t fix.
Option 02a · A driver performance05
02b
Smoke, mirrors
souped up with a few discreet speakers
Hidden in and around the cars they carry the music, and one real Ferrari still does the revs and the rumble.
Every sound is that car, recorded properly and played back from under it.
Option 02b · Smoke and mirrors06
Before we go any further
Rather than describe it, here it is.
Nobody asked us to do this
We went and made it anyway
Engines, tuned and arranged, underneath a piece of music. Not the finished piece and not the final arrangement. But it is real, it is ours, and it was written for Ferrari World rather than pulled off a shelf.
Five pieces, in fact. This is one of them, and it is the route we would pick.
Still from the soundscape film Hear what we made you
You are listening to · option 01
Renault F1, Goodwood, 2006
An engine played by a machine, holding a tune. Not ours, and the only real example that exists, which makes it the closest you can get to hearing option 01. Renault owned that engine and wrote its software. On somebody else’s road car we have neither.
Renault F1 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2006 WATCH ON YOUTUBE
The sound07
What they play
Possible repertoire
Option 01 · melodies
It holds a pitch, so it can carry a tune. What it wants is a top line everybody already knows.
Ishy Bilady, the UAE anthemPrimary. The local moment, and only option 01 can attempt it. Needs clearing
Rossini, William Tell finaleAlready means speed. Galloping, and it can run away with itself
Beethoven, Fifth SymphonyFour notes the whole world knows. Made for call and response
Offenbach, Can‑CanFast, funny, and increasingly frantic as the engine chases it
Grieg, Mountain KingWhisper to chaos. The best build of the five
Option 02a and 02b · the hits
A foot cannot find a note. It can land a big rev on a downbeat. So we want music with holes in it.
All five already mocked up
Mozart, remixedFREE
Bizet, Carmen overtureFREE
Romeo and JulietCHECK
Strauss, The Blue DanubeFREE
Ferrari soundscapeOURS
Not a wishlist. We have built all five, and you can hear them. 02b can also play the left-hand list, because tuned revs from real recordings can hold a pitch without any of the option 01 engineering.
Only the anthem needs clearing. Rossini, Beethoven, Offenbach and Grieg are all long out of copyright, as is everything on the right, so the recording is yours outright. A request for the anthem carrying Miral’s name should go a long way, and it is played straight, never as the joke. We record our own performances throughout, so it is only ever the composition to clear, never a master.
What they play08
Side by side
The honest comparison
01
We trust the robots
For
  • Perfect, every show
  • Real melodies, anthem included
  • Much the best story
Against
  • Engineering unproven
  • Needs a proof car to price
  • Owners must allow hardware
  • Slowest, priciest, most to break
02a
A driver performance
For
  • All of it proven
  • Real cars, really playing
  • The conductor is the shot
Against
  • No two shows alike
  • Basic revs only. Nothing intricate
  • Needs real rehearsal
  • Every engine to look after
02b
Smoke and mirrors
Everything 02a does, plus
  • Every sound is that car
  • Volume entirely ours to set
  • The music can actually be great
  • Lights and dancers lock to it
  • Least that can go wrong on the day
Against
  • Recorded, not played live
  • Needs a straight answer if asked
  • One car does all the live work
The three options09
How it actually locks together
Every piatti crash
is a rev in a car
THE TRACK piatti and hits THE CARS one rev each THE BEAT TRIGGER HALF A SECOND EARLY
We write the track so its hits fall where a car can answer them, and we trigger every rev ahead of the beat, because an engine takes about half a second to speak. Sync it to the beat and it lands late, every time.
Why it works10
The fleet as an ensemble
A mixed fleet isn’t a pile of
loud cars. It’s a choir.
Hold three different engines at the same rev and you get three different notes.
V12
812, F12, 599
A4
440 Hz
Soprano
V8
458, 488, F8
D4
293 Hz
Tenor
V6
296 GTB
A3
220 Hz
Bass
That is all three at 4,400 rpm, and the spacing never changes: whatever the revs, those engines stay an octave and a fourth apart. The fleet arrives pre-sorted into voice parts.
One caveat, raised rather than glossed. A parked car has no airflow, and holding a rev cooks the catalytic converters long before it troubles the engine. Real harmony, yes. Long held chords, no.
Why it works11
Scope, honestly
We know music.
We do not know the rest.
What we know, and will own
  • The composition and the arrangement
  • The backing track, produced by us
  • Which car plays which note, and when
  • Repertoire, and the rights that come with it
  • Recording the engines and building the instrument
  • Sound design, and the audio on the recordings
  • Musical direction and rehearsing the performers
What we do not know, and will not pretend to
  • Staging, structures and load
  • Ramps and vehicle access
  • Screens and LED supply
  • Lighting rig and power
  • Playout system
  • Permits, licences and noise consent
  • Crowd management and marshalling
  • Insurance and liability
  • Weather contingency
  • Dancers and choreography
  • Artist management
  • Booking the conductor and performers
That second column needs an owner, and it is not us. We will help you find them. What we will not do is quote for it and learn on your weekend.
DK Engineering
And on the engineering itself, we are waiting to hear back from DK Engineering, the Ferrari specialists in Hertfordshire, on what is possible and what it costs.
Making it happen12
Thank you
A Symphony
of Ferraris
We’d genuinely love this one. It sits exactly where our work is at its best: a real musical idea, a hard technical problem, and a deadline.
Prepared for
Ferrari World Abu DhabiWeber ShandwickOmnicom
From
WithFeeling
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