A live orchestra of Ferrari engines, played across Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. 4–6 December 2026 ยท Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
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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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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.
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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.
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.
It holds a pitch, so it can carry a tune. What it wants is a top line everybody already knows.
Ishy Bilady, the UAE anthem
Primary. The local moment, and only option 01 can attempt it. Needs clearing
Rossini, William Tell finale
Already means speed. Galloping, and it can run away with itself
Beethoven, Fifth Symphony
Four notes the whole world knows. Made for call and response
Offenbach, Can‑Can
Fast, funny, and increasingly frantic as the engine chases it
Grieg, Mountain King
Whisper 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, remixed
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Bizet, Carmen overture
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Romeo and Juliet
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Strauss, The Blue Danube
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Ferrari soundscape
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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
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How it actually locks together
Every piatti crash is a rev in a car
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.
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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.
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.
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A Symphony of Ferraris · WithFeeling · prepared for Miral and Ferrari World Abu Dhabi