Eric Whiteacre “Sleep” – 2000 Voice Virtual Choir
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By Mark Traphagen on April 12, 2011
One of the things I love most about music is how it is often birthed out of human collaboration. My favorite moments in my band The Bulltown Strutters, whether at rehearsals or on stage, come when musical magic happens as band members weave something that is bigger (and more wonderful!) than the sum of its parts.
Composer Eric Whiteacre took musical collaboration to a new level, enabled by technology and the Internet. Over several months, 2000+ vocalists from 58 countries recorded their individual parts to Whiteacre’s mesmerizing piece “Sleep.” Whiteacre and his team assembled their recordings, uploaded to YouTube, into a seamless choral performance, which you can hear in the video below.
Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, put it well: “For anyone who wants to believe in the humanizing possibilities of a connected world, here is your anthem.”
Is this the future of music?
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for
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