What happens when a violin concerto is reconstructed using code and simulation? In *Coded 47* , composition student Lingyuan Yang transforms Sibelius’s famous Violin Concerto into an alienating digital soundscape.

Using a custom-built physical modeling instrument—a digitally constructed “violin”—all sounds are generated through mathematical simulations of tension, friction, and synthetic materials. From that single instrument emerges an entire orchestral world.

Familiar motifs from Sibelius’s Violin Concerto appearas shadows of the original. Through distortion, transformation, and granular processing, the music is transformed into an otherworldly simulation of the concerto: recognizable, yet completely transformed.

With *Coded 47*, Yang explores the boundary between acoustic tradition and digital imagination, giving Sibelius’s music a surprising new form. You can hear the result at the concert on Friday , May Friday , at Amare in The Hague.