There goes my retirement

The full story is here, and here's how it works:

There are four components. First, there are the sound libraries. They are 500 to 600 gigabytes of data on a disc. Each note, on each instrument, each possible way a musician can play it, is recorded as a separate file. So, say a violin playing a C would be recorded soft, loud, mezzo-piano, pizzicato, using the bow, loud sharp attack then fading away. There might be hundreds of recordings of that violin playing C. . . Next, there is software that manages access to that data. . . The third component is like the bow for a violin, it's something you wield to make the sound happen. For me, that's the Nintendo wireless controller and I also stand on a Wii balance board. The board senses where and how hard I'm leaning. If I wave my arms faster or slower, that changes the speed, and if I lean toward the phantom areas where the musicians would be in a real orchestra, those instruments become louder. I preprogram the notes to be played into the computer. . . The fourth part is having really good speakers, and that's very important. . . Bang & Olufsen has provided me with Beolab 5 speakers. The technology in them was developed by a local guy, David Moulton, who lives in Groton. The essence of the technology is that it spreads the sound evenly in a space, so you can create the illusion that the sound is originating across the stage.

My game was going to come with Bang & Olufsen speakers, too, Paul Henry Smith.