Virtual Choir

Inspired by a lone YouTube video of a young girl singing one of his pieces, popular classical composer/conductor Eric Whitacre put together an entire Virtual Choir project. The way it works is, Whitacre creates a guide video of himself conducting and posts it online. He then encourages folks from all over the world to record themselves individually singing along to it and post the video on YouTube. All of the individual videos are eventually edited together by producer Scott Haines into one massive virtual choir, and the end result is breath-taking. See for yourself:

(Whitacre's virtual choir performing a stirring rendition of "Lux Aurumque".)

Beginning as a self-described "simple experiment in social media", this video features 185 individuals from over 15 countries worldwide. People separated by oceans, who will never meet face to face, singing alone. But also together. You can find some more really interesting information about the creation process of this video here.

The choir has a new video premiering on April 7th, which received a staggering 2051 responses from 58 countries. 

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