Music In The Round… On Your Headphones
With a virtual reality headset you can experience The New Dublin Voices performing Thomas Tallis’ “Spem In Alium” in the round—right in the middle of it.
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Virtual choir: performance, and technology, and… wow.
Composer Eric Whitacre, known for stirring choral compositions, has for several years been doing an experiment he calls “Virtual Choir”. He makes a guide track available for one of his pieces—something to sing along to—and asks the public to record themselves singing their part on camera and send it to him. In this particular rendition, “Virtual Choir 3,” you are apparently hearing 3746 voices from 73 countries performing together. Whoa.
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 3, ‘Water Night’
Morten Lauridsen shows you how to write a song.
In a great little seven-and-a-half-minute video courtesy of classicalchops.org, Morten Lauridsen takes us through the compositional process behind one of the most performed choral pieces of our time, Dirait-On. (French, pronounced something like “dee-ray-tawn”.)