Virtual choir

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A virtual choir is the performance of a piece of music by a group of people over the Internet. The specialty is that the individual singers and the conductor are not in the same room. The attendance is only mediated via the Internet. People don't even have to know each other. The best-known example are the projects of Eric Whitacre . The performance does not take place live, but videos and their soundtracks are combined to form a final product.

So far, u. a. Lux Aurumque , a work that brings together 185 voices from twelve countries, and Sleep , for which 2052 internet users from 58 countries had submitted recordings.

Virtual Choir 1.0: Lux Aurumque

Eric Whitacre acted as a virtual conductor and played the piano. Video producer and musician Scott Haines did the editing. The finished video was posted on YouTube on July 11, 2009. The idea came to the composer and conductor Whitacre when Britlin Losee, a fan, posted a video on YouTube in which she sang the soprano part of his Sleep . If you put 100 people singing their respective parts together, you would have something completely new, a virtual choir. So Whitacre asked his fans to send in contributions. It was supposed to be based on a performance of Sleep by the British Polyphony Choir. The video was a huge hit. Eric Whitacre only met Scott Haines once in person and 99% of the virtual choir never met.

Virtual Choir 2.0: Sleep

The impressive result prompted Whitacre to tackle another project. This time with the piece Sleep and even more participation. The result was published on March 21, 2010.

Virtual Choir 3.0: Water Night

The third project, Water Night , premiered on April 2, 2012 at Lincoln Center in New York City . It is composed of 3,746 videos by 2,945 singers from 73 countries.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lux Aurumque
  2. Sleep
  3. ^ The Virtual Choir How We Did It
  4. Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3— "Water Night" Live-Streamed on AboutLincolnCenter.org, April 2 ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release on archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 13, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lc.lincolncenter.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lc.lincolncenter.org

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