Massive Worldwide Virtual Collaboration

[64Guitars]

This is pretty interesting. American composer & conductor Eric Whitacre has created a huge virtual choir by getting people from all over the world to submit YouTube videos of themselves singing this song. All of the videos were then mixed and rendered to create this video which premiered at Buckingham Palace on July 11, 2013. Pretty cool song too. I love the growly bass synth. And the choir is awesome.

4) "Fly to Paradise" - 2013
8,409 Videos
5,905 Singers
101 Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oDnUga0JU


He's done others too, each one bigger than the previous. Here's an interesting talk about the project:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NENlXsW4pM

1) "Lux Aurumque" - 2010
185 Videos
243 Tracks
12 Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

2) "Sleep" - 2011
2,052 performances
by 1,752 singers
in 58 Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WhWDCw3Mng

3) "Water Night" - 2012
3,746 videos
by 2,945 singers
in 73 Countries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3rRaL-Czxw


More info:

http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_whitacre#Virtual_Choir

[Geir]

WOW, that's amazing !!

The TED talk was quite interesting too

[Hilary]

I did consider taking part in one of them, but decided against it at the time. A Brit, Peter Nugent, has also tried something similar (on a smaller scale), here's one of the clips. I was lucky enough to sing in a National Barbershop Chorus with Peter as our MD for a couple of years. I know he had real issues with copyright trying to do this and very little support (again I had the opportunity to do it and didn't!)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11TDYd0YPY

[kenny mac]

That's one huge collab  Amazing.

[Geir]

And really amazing how good it sounds, considering how many (crappy) mics and noisy enviroments there must be in the submitted video-recordings !

[Hook]

Brilliant!