So the percussion ensemble at my school needed an interesting setup for their recent concert. My live sound class came up with some cool ideas and created some cables to transfer audio signals into light signals to act as a "conductor" for the piece. One of my friends wrote an article about it and my professor got it published in Pro Sound Web. Check it out, it was a really cool setup.
http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/percussion_in_the_dark_nothing_a_couple_of_leds_cant_fix/
http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/percussion_in_the_dark_nothing_a_couple_of_leds_cant_fix/