{"id":648486,"date":"2013-03-22T11:11:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=73583"},"modified":"2013-03-22T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:49:30","slug":"the-live-meshing-of-a-real-life-and-virtual-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648486","title":{"rendered":"The live meshing of a real life and virtual chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGngoGvOSuY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eric Whitacre has spent most of his career conducting traditional choirs. Then, in 2009, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3xGBWhWgydw\">fan video posted to YouTube<\/a> sparked a crazy idea: could he take singers from across the globe, have them sing the same piece on video, and edit it together into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/a_choir_as_big_as_the_internet.html\">virtual choir<\/a>? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/a_choir_as_big_as_the_internet.html\">results of this experiment<\/a> quickly went viral. And at TED2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong.html\">Whitacre spoke about the aha moment behind the choir<\/a>, and debuted a new piece from the unusual ensemble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/eric_whitacre_virtual_choir_live.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/7be1cf3682b1b8ed1fa62ae1d1c4654288092025_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Whitacre: Virtual Choir Live\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Eric Whitacre: Virtual Choir Live<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a>In today\u2019s talk, given at TED2013, Whitacre takes this idea to the next level &#8212; combining multiple choirs on stage with singers from 32 different countries via Skype, all of them making beautiful choral music together in real time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/eric_whitacre_virtual_choir_live.html\">Watch as Whitacre conducts this group in a performance of \u201cCloudburst.\u201d \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making this unusual performance happen was no small feat. In the video above, see how it was done, and hear from singers who took part despite their far-flung locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will go in the history books,\u201d says Lucas Speck of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Adds Whitacre, &#8220;To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it&#8217;s as if there aren&#8217;t borders anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The choirs who appeared on the TED stage are from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California State University, Long Beach Campus<\/li>\n<li>California State University, Fullerton Campus<\/li>\n<li>Riverside City College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A list of the remote singers and the countries they represent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gina Alvarado, Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Wei Jiang,\u00a0Australia<\/li>\n<li>Lucas Mateus,\u00a0Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Ariana Del Bianco,\u00a0Canada<\/li>\n<li>Anita Ya\u00f1ez,\u00a0Chile<\/li>\n<li>Meg Ideker,\u00a0China<\/li>\n<li>Gan Hui Wan,\u00a0Malaysia<\/li>\n<li>Anabela Baric,\u00a0Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Annika Kukk,\u00a0Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Yohann Hamon,\u00a0France<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Utech,\u00a0Germany<\/li>\n<li>Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra J\u00f6kulsd\u00f3ttir,\u00a0Iceland<\/li>\n<li>Saikumar Prabhakaran,\u00a0India<\/li>\n<li>Christin N. Waldemar,\u00a0Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>Moshe Jonathan Gordon,\u00a0Israel<\/li>\n<li>Carol Anne Edington,\u00a0Japan<\/li>\n<li>Julia Slepenkova,\u00a0Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Khalid L. Belboe,\u00a0Norway<\/li>\n<li>Von DeGuzman,\u00a0Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Joanna Trociuk,\u00a0Poland<\/li>\n<li>Herson A. Perez Valentin,\u00a0Puerto Rico<\/li>\n<li>Sandor Orbok,\u00a0Romania<\/li>\n<li>Milo\u0161 Truji\u0107,\u00a0Serbia<\/li>\n<li>Anastassia Rakitianskaia,\u00a0South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Amy Daniels,\u00a0South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Miha Jej\u010di\u010d,\u00a0Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Souza,\u00a0South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Kuan-ming Lin,\u00a0Taiwan<\/li>\n<li>Heidi Greimann,\u00a0Turkey<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Borszik,\u00a0UAE<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Williams,\u00a0UK<\/li>\n<li>Jack Rowland,\u00a0USA<\/li>\n<li>Maria Petrova,\u00a0USA<\/li>\n<li>Jason Ekhabi Sibi-Okumu,\u00a0USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/73583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/73583\/\" \/><\/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=73583&#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\/d7bmFOpaHd0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Whitacre has spent most of his career conducting traditional choirs. Then, in 2009, a fan video posted to YouTube sparked a crazy idea: could he take singers from across the globe, have them sing the same piece on video, and edit it together into a virtual choir? 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