YouTube Choir of 250 Fulfills Composer's Dream [VIDEO]

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Whitacre and producer Scott Haines used social media — his blog, a Facebook page and YouTube — to assemble and audition singers for his piece. He sent the sheet music out so people could submit videos featuring them singing individual parts. He then sifted through the videos and edited the audio parts together to form a very professional-sounding choir.

For the video, he visualized the choir in a 3D, virtual array of living rooms and bedrooms, with him standing in the middle conducting. You probably haven't seen anything quite like it before.

The most similar thing we can think of is Israeli musician Kutiman's Thru-You (which is also worth a look and listen), but Kutiman assembled unrelated videos of people expressing themselves musically on YouTube without any prior planning or composition, so it's not quite the same.

Watch the performance below. It's rather stunning.

[via kottke.org]