Star Wars rests squarely in the public consciousness: On Monday, Oct. 19, the trailer for the forthcoming Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, made its debut. As of this writing, the trailer has been viewed nearly 30 million times since being posted to YouTube.
Certainly the next Star Wars will feature plenty of intergalactic spectacle and set-in-space swashbuckling derring-do. Whether the Millennium Falcon will be able to handle warp speed is a question filmgoers are waiting to have answered.
In the meantime, however — not so long ago and in this very galaxy — Manuel Nägeli, a trombonist with the Uni Orchester of Bern, Switzerland, set about creating his own type of Star Wars special effects. Nägeli mounted a GoPro camera to the end of his trombone slide and set it to record the orchestra's performance of John Williams' "Imperial March" from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
While it's no warp-speed sprint through space, Nägeli's video is an entertaining thrill ride in a space of a concert hall very few get to see.
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