09 April 2010

Singing with strangers

Ten years ago, when I was taking music classes in my middle school, this video would have likely been impossible.



Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre explains how he got started on the virtual choir project and how he coordinated nearly 200 individual videos into one virtual concert here.

A choir of people who have are not in the same space and have never met can still sound beautiful, and I think this has a lot of cool implications for education, especially music classes.  Kids could sing or play instruments with people on the other side of the world.  What a great way to reinforce the idea that music truly is a universal language. 

image from flickr.com by ordinaryfool

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