Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 2.0 performs Sleep.
The Virtual Choir features 2052 performances from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011.
While not an obviously electronic work, it’s a great example using the Internet as a collaborative platform to do things that would be otherwise impossible or impractical.
Here’s a video introduction, by Whitacre, to the Virtual Choir & the inspiration behind it:
Composed and Conducted by Eric Whitacre
Poetry by Charles Anthony Silvestri
Directed by rehabstudio/Cake
Design and Animation by Thiago Maia, David Pocull and Sebastian Baptista
Very cool!
this is cool but where's the electronic/synth musical internet callaboration examples?
I'd be interested if anybody's doing anything like this with synths, too.
Go for it! There's an opportunity there for you.
People connected worldwide via the internet and recorded themselves singing along to a prerecorded conductor… how much more techy do you dorks need? Does everyone on this post literally only listen to music with synthesizers in it?
To be fair the site is called synthtopia.
Very beautiful piece. I like it better than the first virtual choir piece.
I loved this. Also fun is the TED talk about how it came about.
And, hey, the video is kinda synthesized, no? 😀
We tend to think of synthesis not as just the idea of using electronics to make cool new sounds, but the more conceptual level of using technology to combine things to create something new.
We tend to think of synthesis not as just the idea of using electronics to make cool new sounds, but the more conceptual level of using technology to combine things to create something new.
But we do like the big knobby synths.