TED: How Eric Whitacre conducted his virtual choir of 2,000 voices

TED: How Eric Whitacre conducted his virtual choir of 2,000 voicesWith an emergent technology, something happens that you’d never imagined. Here, YouTube and Hulu, via WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter — and built upon the Internet — bring something new and wonderful to life.

With all of the horrible things we’ve learned through the Internet about suffering in our world lately, this is a video about the simple, powerful joy of people around the world singing together.

In a moving, madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, “Sleep.”

In: Collaboration, Creativity, Global, Noted, Social Web, Society, Video/audio

One Comment

  1. Laura Sebastianelli
    Posted April 2, 2011 at 10:52 am | Permalink

    wow! can’t wait to see the full version!!!!!
    And, Jay thank you for sharing this. I was moved to tears!

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