Don’t know why I hadn’t come across this before, but Eric Whitacre’s virtual choir is an interesting concept. The composer invites people to participate, sends them out a score, and they video record their part independently and post to youtube. All the parts are then edited together and the result is a ‘virtual’ choir with 185 voices from 12 countries.
Eric explains how it works…
The first performance of ‘Lux Aurumque’ was posted in March 2010.
There is currently another project underway for 2011 to record his composition ‘Sleep’.
While I’m still getting to grips with how this was accomplished, I’m wondering how an idea like this can be used in education. I suppose students collaborating (with or without direction) to create music but they could also work on story or art using the affordances of a service like google sites. Amazing what can be accomplished using web 2.0 type of collaboration.
