{"id":644880,"date":"2013-03-01T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72099"},"modified":"2013-03-01T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:33:41","slug":"a-choir-live-and-online-eric-whitacre-at-ted2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644880","title":{"rendered":"A choir live and online: Eric Whitacre at TED2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72156\" alt=\"Photo: James Duncan Davidson\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/ted2013_0074832_d41_5371.jpg?w=900&#038;h=635\" width=\"900\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: James Duncan Davidson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an extraordinary finale for TED2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.com\/\">Eric Whitacre<\/a> stages a type of performance that has never been seen before, with a choir assembled to sing his composition, &#8220;Cloudburst.&#8221; It&#8217;s not just any choir. He&#8217;s joined on stage by 100 live singers formed from choirs from California State University, Long Beach Campus, California State University, Fullerton Campus, and Riverside City College. That&#8217;s been done before. He is also joined, via Skype, by 32 singers from 32 different countries connecting from their homes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72157\" alt=\"Photo: James Duncan Davidson\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/ted2013_0075179_dsc_9844.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: James Duncan Davidson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whitacre is famous for his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs\">Virtual Choir<\/a>, and the follow-up, shown first on stage at TED. But no one has ever attempted to put a live choir\u00a0together\u00a0with a virtual one. In part this is because of the latency issues of the connection. It&#8217;s less than a second, but in singing that is still a potentially huge problem. So, he adapted &#8220;Cloudburst,&#8221; one of his earliest\u00a0pieces, to embrace that latency.<\/p>\n<p>The effect is stunning. We listen to this amazing piece, aware of the vast connection enabled by the Internet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72159\" alt=\"Photo: Ryan Lash\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/ted2013_0076433_ao8a5323.jpg?w=900&#038;h=600\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ryan Lash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_72158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72158 \" alt=\"TED2013_0074933_D41_5472\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/ted2013_0074933_d41_5472.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: James Duncan Davidson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/72099\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/72099\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=72099&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/G_VPiJZCiPU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: James Duncan Davidson In an extraordinary finale for TED2013, Eric Whitacre stages a type of performance that has never been seen before, with a choir assembled to sing his composition, &#8220;Cloudburst.&#8221; It&#8217;s not just any choir. He&#8217;s joined on stage by 100 live singers formed from choirs from California State University, Long Beach Campus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}