Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel, 39-year-old music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has premiered his virtual reality film 'Symphony' in Madrid. It took four years and the efforts of 250 people to produce the innovative project that's essentially happening in two huge white trailers. The film is split into two, 12-minute sections. The first, shown on a giant screen, follows three young musicians in Spain, the US and Colombia as they practise their instruments. For the second, visitors are invited into the other trailer, given a virtual reality headset and headphones and they suddenly become part of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, get trapped inside a violin and then fly through the constituent parts of a trumpet. The project will visit 100 towns and cities across Spain and Portugal on a 10-year tour.

"Once it's established that a patio big enough to hold a laptop podium is all that most modern acts need to deliver their unexpurgated festival set to iPhone, a livestreamed Glastonbury is entirely possible" - Mark, My Words predicts the future of online concerts. It looks bright, at least to the NME columnist, who wants major acts to "blow their cancelled tour budget on 360-degree cameras and stage virtual gigs that’ll be almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing – only with much, much better wine".