Remarkably, most of them recorded in just one take and despite a few technical difficulties we got a total of 22 videos which was a significant increase in numbers. He (and the choir) got two standing ovations - testimony to the power of the internet to connect people of all backgrounds and abilities and create something beautiful across time and space. Ten years ago Grammy® Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre created the Virtual Choir with a simple question: is it possible to make beautiful music together, no matter how far apart we are?. Spitfire Audio has become one of the industry’s leading creators of sample-based virtual instruments. Virtual Choir 6, a project from composer and conductor Eric Whitacre, joined 17,572 singers together in quarantine to perform "Sing Gently." Here's a timeline which tells you how we made the Virtual Choir - we hope you find it interesting! We hope you enjoy it! ).\r\rTEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. The range of Eric Whitacre’s international reach increased in 2010 with the launch of his ground-breaking Virtual Choir, ‘Lux Aurumque’. The final video render took several days. This, in turn, generated lots more interest in the Virtual Choir. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, “Sleep,” with a video choir of 2,052. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. A VC fan from Singapore cut together a video featuring just four of the first few singers. The 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of 'Sleep' from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011. Featuring Eric’s composition ‘Sleep’, Virtual Choir 2 was released in April 2011 and was met with a staggering response, incorporating 2052 videos from 58 countries and from all walks of life, including 9 year olds to senior citizens. One more video downloading task was run and the video files were then processed to extract the audio. In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. You have heard their sounds in countless movies, television shows, video games, and on the radio. His new chart-topping CD release, Water Night, comes hot on the heels... view details Follow. Then I surrender unto sleep, Where clouds of dream give second sight. ). Choral composer Eric Whitacre recruited vocalists from 58 countries via YouTube to sing his work. Eric will handwrite, sign and personally dedicate a section from a piece of your choir (below) on 11x17 inch manuscript. Unquiet: SINGASONE. Eric addressed the TED conference and as well as telling them the story of the Virtual Choir he gave the global audience a preview of Sleep. The official launch took place at Paley Center for Media in New York. The final audio was prepared and the final creative was approved; Tony then worked with rehab and Cake on sync issues and final tweaks. Sleep 3. Videos: 2,052. Deep Field: Earth Choir 6. After multiple virtual choir projects featuring over 20,000 singers from 124 different countries, the answer is a resounding yes. The upload rate starts to increase as people find some spare time. Working with Eric, Rehabstudio and Floating Earth combined these thousands of individual choral parts to create the final tour de force: The Virtual Choir. But virtualness is also a catalyst for connection. it was a very nervous time! 1358 videos from 52 countries. The videos were checked for format and resized and synced to ensure smooth integration with the globes, which were built using mathematical expressions in After Effects. The event was webcast worldwide on WQXR and posted on YouTube that evening. Please select from any of the Virtual Choir works: 1. Because this was a global project we needed to honour global time zones, so the official close for entries was 09:59 GMT on January 1st which was 23:59 in Western Samoa. Upon my pillow, safe in bed, A thousand pictures fill my head. I cannot sleep, my mind’s a-flight; And yet my limbs seem made of lead. Heavy snow hit Europe and the US, disrupting travel plans for many people who wanted to take part in the VC. All we could do is to continue to encourage and support singers on the VC Facebook page, and encourage those who had already taken part to help others. Tony Piper, a singer (and IT consultant) from London decided to spend a few hours building a web-based system to find the VC entries so he could see how the Virtual Choir was going. Join us at the Paley Center for a discussion with Eric Whitacre and the premiere screening of Virtual Choir 2011 performing Sleep.Follow the live tweets @PaleyCenter on Twitter and use #VirtualChoir #PaleyLiveNY to join the conversation!. Within just a few hours of launch the first three entries had been uploaded to YouTube - two from the USA (Courtney Kayser and Hannah Reeves) and one from Portugal (Pedro Latas). ‘Sleep’ is featured on Light & Gold, Eric’s first album for Decca. Eric recorded the video of him conducing Sleep and then added a piano track. Singers: 1,999. Meanwhile, we asked all the participants to check we had found their entries, giving them until 23:59 Western Samoa time on January 17th. Following the viral effect of Virtual Choir 1.0 “Lux Aurumque“, Eric agreed to create a new Virtual Choir for 2011 and chose his piece 'Sleep'. rehabstudio created the concept/storyboard and appointed Cake TV to concentrate on the look and direction of the video, developing the idea of the network/planetary system. Meanwhile, the team at Decca built a YouTube page. Report. The full piece premiered a few weeks later (yes, on YouTube! It was time to start encouraging people to take the bold step to record and upload their performance. Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong. Almost 170GB, across two plugins - a choir plugin, and an evo plugin. Claire liaised with rehabstudio, Cake and Floating Earth on a daily basis, passing each stage through to Eric for approval. But, really wanting to include those people who were going to miss the deadline due to the bad weather, we decided to allow a few late entries up until 10th January. Our first big milestone - 100 videos and another excuse to publish a montage. Virtual Choir 3 — "Water Night" Video of Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3, 'Water Night' The World is a nonprofit newsroom that produces relevant, fact … 41820 people from 145 countries signed up to Virtual Choir 6. In a moving and madly viral video last year (see below), composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. Eric Whitacre has become a musical sensation across the globe, owing largely to his immensely popular "Virtual Choir" features on YouTube. The full piece premiered a few weeks later (yes, on YouTube! For the next version of the Virtual Choir we will sing Sleep, and this time around, we're shooting for the Guinness title of world's largest internet choir. It was the night before Christmas and we had reached 500 vidoes. 4:31. Jenice Burk. Find out more about the Virtual Choir at virtualchoir.org. It was beautiful to watch and we all began to dream about what it would be like with 900 singers taking part. If there are noises in the night, A frightening shadow, flickering light, Having approved the storyboards, the "animatic" was created using a simple sketch animation to determine the pacing and cinematography for the final element. Meanwhile, Tony Piper is running lots of cross-checks to make sure he's found all the videos and Tony Silvestri (who wrote the poem Sleep) recorded and uploaded his contribution. Water Night 4. All rights reserved. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.\r\rFollow us on Twitter\rhttp://www.twitter.com/tednews\r\rCheckout our Facebook page for TED exclusives\rhttps://www.facebook.com/TED We decided to hold a Virtual Choir party weekend and Eric and the rest of the team helped a number of Cambridge University Choral Scholars record and upload their performance. The full piece premiered a few weeks later (yes, on YouTube! Singing with others is a powerful form of expression. Eric Whitacre’s brand new Virtual Choir 2.0 was unveiled last night in New York, with a live simultaneous webcast worldwide. ). Sing Gently 7. Buy download online. Tony's system did another sweep and we declared a total of 1098 uploads from 47 countries, beating our original target by a comfortable margin! 1160 videos, with 7 days to go until the extended deadline. A hard disk containing all the videos (about 50GB, compressed) was sent to rehabstudio and a hard disk containing all the audio files (about 5GB, compressed) was sent to Floating Earth. Over 11,000 people had downloaded the music and we had found 160 videos. Eric Whitacre Choir is available to download or order via our bespoke hard drive service. Meantime, at Floating Earth the audio files were worked on week by week. The final mix had noise reduction applied (to remove background noises such as doorbells, ringing phones, birds, aircraft and crickets), was equalized, compressed and finally reverb was added. Browse more videos. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2,052. The evening hangs beneath the moon, A silver thread on darkened dune. Glow 8. Ten Years of Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir. These guide tracks have been created solely for the purpose of learning and recording "Sing Gently" for Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 6. Celebrating 10 years of Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, this commemorative album features more than 35,000 singers from 145 countries who have come together to sing as one. Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently The Choir. The project was launched with a blog post from Eric - "Here we go, gang. ). What dreams may come, both dark and deep, Of flying wings and soaring leap Any age is welcome.". Will it increase the demand for the real Eric Whitacre choir, or will it make the sound become passé (in a similar manner to the way the East West choir VIs made the whole Orff Carmina Burana Latin choir thing overused and tired)? Craig Jenkins at Floating Earth created the whole choir sound working with Eric and Claire, as several other sound engineers worked on the multiple audio files to draw the whole choir together. Fly to Paradise 5. Adobe After Effects was used to control all the elements in a 3D space and add camera angles to the scenes. Soprano 6262; Alto 6414; Tenor 2209; Bass 2671; Sign Language 16 Every audio track was individually synced to the conductor track using Pyramix DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and monitored on B & W loudspeakers. Her singing is simply beautiful and we couldn't resist sharing her video with everyone (with her and her mother's consent). Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0 'Sleep', released in April 2011, involves over 2,000 voices from 58 countries. The Virtual Choir Earth View was launched, using the brand-new Google Earth web browser plugin to show the location of singers around the world. The technical cross-checking continues. Grace Davidson - Soprano Martha McLorinan - Alto Ben Hymas - Tenor Greg Skidmore - Bass Sam Glicklich - Piano Eric Whitacre - Conductor virtualchoir6.com Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 6 is in collaboration with The Colburn School and The NAMM Foundation. The feedback was incredible - several people who had been procrastinating decided that she was the inspiration they needed to record and upload their performance. Tony's system had found 59 entries, and he created a montage of thumbnails from the videos. In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. What If Christmas Day, but still a working day for Team Whitacre and VC singers. Meanwhile, Eric was settling into his new role as Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK. Stream Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0 - 'Sleep' by Paul Nasca from desktop or your mobile device This time, they are performing his piece ‘ Sleep ‘. ). The system started to download all the videos from YouTube. Our last upload was just a few minutes before the deadline (but wasn't from Western Samoa). We received 17572 videos from 129 countries.. Storyboards were approved by Eric/Claire and Decca and a web resource was created for all team members to see ideas and media uploaded, to comment and approve on a frequent basis. The full piece premieres April 7 (yes, on YouTube! For Virtual Choir 6, we continued with a new piece I wrote especially for the Virtual Choir during the pandemic, “Sing Gently”. Playing next. We decided to publish a list of videos and names so that everyone could check we had found them. We were astounded by the number of countries represented. It's part of the human nature to be a social beast: to belong. Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, "Sleep", was released in April 2011 and involved more than 2,000 voices from 58 countries. This episode was written and produced by Colin DeVarney. Meanwhile, Eric's new CD 'Light & Gold' was launched in London and the Virtual Choir became a front-page feature on YouTube UK. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2,052. Grammy Award-winning American composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre, 50, is one of the most popular musicians on the planet, be it in classical music, or on film and television. video featuring just four of the first few singers, graph of the number of submissions over time. Eric's reference to a woman who had travelled a long way to become a part of the virtual choir was moving. If you have unlimited data and a fast connection, it’s certainly possible to download, but if you’re not sure, we would recommend using our bespoke hard drive service to save your download burden. We received a video featuring a 9 year old girl, Georgina from the UK. Countries: 58. That's why the composer Eric Whitacre started the Virtual Choir; an experiment that connects singers from every corner of the globe. VC 1 receives print, radio at TV coverage across the world. http://www.ted.com In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. With just a month to go before the closing deadline we had nearly 300 videos - already the Virtual Choir was going to be bigger than the Lux Aurumque project but 900 videos was a huge number and we had no way of knowing if we would reach our goal. Live from the Paley Center, New York, Eric introduced and launched the Virtual Choir 2.0 video to a global audience, courtesy of WQXR.org and YouTube. How many more could there be? Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise 8,409 Videos 5,905 Singers 101 Countries The Them Bonez Crew (Bonez) first discovered the amazing Virtual Choir creations of Eric Whitacre way back (in blogger time) in 2010 with our reporting of Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque'.It has been a while since we have checked in on Mr. Whitacre, thus the reason for today's post. Copyright 2020 Eric Whitacre. In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. The Eric Whitacre Choir marks Spitfire Audio’s first foray into sampling the human voice—is it the right choir library for you? At the same time, we had to reverse geocode each entry so that we had a country for everyone. Now, Eric Whitacre is back with the Virtual Choir 2.0, a collection of over 2,000 videos from 58 countries around the world. Over the week more videos were found (they had been incorrectly tagged or titled). Needless to say, this generated lots of enquiries as singers realised they needed to follow our instructions exactly otherwise their videos would not be found and included. In this episode, we hear how a choir can unite people from different backgrounds to achieve a common goal - creating beautiful music. Design and animation by Thiago Maia, David Pocull & Sebastian Baptista, Audio produced by Floating Earth (with special thanks to Craig Jenkins), Conductor video created by David Noroña & Cuentista Productions, Special thanks to Claire Long (Manager, Eric Whitacre), Special thanks to Tony Piper (Manager, Virtual Choir 2011). An incredible number, but still way short of the goal with just a week to go. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2,052. We'll need at least 900 singers, so all of you are invited. Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, featuring his piece "Sleep," makes its debut Thursday night. Featuring Eric’s composition ‘Sleep’, Virtual Choir 2 was released in April 2011 and was met with a staggering response, incorporating 2052 videos from 58 countries and from all walks of life, including 9 year olds to senior citizens. In some cases we had to get the country from the YouTube profile or the description on the video. Each globe was then individually rendered. The full piece premieres April 7 (yes, on YouTube! A very small number of audio tracks were discarded due to technical errors in recording or upload. He sent a link to Claire Long (Eric's Manager), thinking that Eric might find it useful too. A small number of video tracks had to be set aside due to technical errors in the media. People will go to lengths to become a part of something. The Facebook group became very busy with lots of contributors trying to get their video uploaded before the original deadline. A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong | Eric Whitacre - YouTube Eric Whitacre leads his virtual youth choir during the Opening Ceremony of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Eric previewed the Virtual Choir 2 as a guest speaker at the TED conference in Long Beach, California in February 2011 and received the first full standing ovation of the conference. Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong. Order The Album Listen Online 2052 singers across 58 countries submitted individual videos of Sleep, composed and virtually conducted by Whitacre. The online project, inspired by a young singer’s video upload, was created by 185 singers from a dozen different countries. Sing as One: Ten Years of Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir. It was really fun to see people tagging themselves in the picture on Facebook. After checking, checking and checking some more we declared our final total - 2052 videos from 58 countries. Using data from the system, VC member Chris Clement created a graph of the number of submissions over time - it was a classic Hockey Stick (or 'procrastination' curve). After multiple virtual choir projects featuring over 20,000 singers from 124 different countries, the answer is a resounding yes. Lux Aurumque 2. 1256 videos from 50 countries. As I surrender unto sleep, As I surrender unto sleep. The official launch took place at Paley Center for Media in New York. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2,052. In the few days after Christmas we were up to 800 entries and no longer concerned about meeting our goal. Every singer is credited in the luxurious full-color booklet of over 200 pages. In recent years Eric Whitacre has gained acclaim as one of the world’s most popular choral composers with his heartfelt, evocative music. Light & Gold reached #1 in the US on the Billboard Charts. This was the end of the deadline extension and our initial count was 1987 videos from 55 countries, more than doubling our original goal. Also, we extracted the singers names from the descriptions ready for use in the title sequence. Virtual choirs before a pandemic After unlocking the technical challenges to constructing virtual choirs in 2009, Whitacre began experimenting and producing giant cyberspace sing-alongs, building a reputation as a pioneer in the field. With closing eyes and resting head I know that sleep is coming soon. Eric Whitacre (Photo: Marc Royce) Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently, lyrics and music by Eric Whitacre, July 19, 2020, 10:30 am PT, 1:30 pm ET, 6:30 pm GMT+1, virtualchoir6.com. Launch Day! I wonder if in retrospect, Eric Whitacre will consider this to have been a good career move or not. Sam Glicklich, Guy Sigsworth Virtual Choir 1, Virtual Choir 2, Virtual Choir 3, Virtual Choir 4, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric Whitacre Singers, Virtual Choir 5, Virtual Choir 6, World of Color Honor Choir, Virtual Youth Choir, Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir 3.0 premiered on 2 April 2012. Whitacre's Virtual Choir performance of Lux Aurumque, has received almost 6.5 million views (as of July 2020), featuring 185 singers from 12 countries. Deadline day! Each video had to be added by hand but it was worth the effort to see this global project unfold. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, \"Sleep,\" with a video choir of 2,052. 6 years ago | 28 views.
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