{"id":1403,"date":"2010-03-23T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/03\/separate_together_-_the_virtua\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T14:41:19","slug":"separate_together_-_the_virtua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/separate_together_-_the_virtua.php","title":{"rendered":"Separate together &#8211; the virtual choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Eric Whitacre and his collaborators offer up a really interesting hybrid of the virtual and the real in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs\">the Virtual Choir<\/a>, combining 185 separate choristers from 12 countries recorded independently, all conducted by the composer (through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uh1c2xWVWiA\">prerecorded conductor track on YouTube<\/a>) and combined into a single performance. Whitacre <a href=\"http:\/\/ericwhitacre.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/13\/virtual-choir-project-ii-lux-aurumque\/\">posted the announcement and instructions for the project<\/a> back in July. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s not the same as a single ensemble in a common space shared with its audience. But it&#8217;s also a performance that couldn&#8217;t exist in this way without the technology. Well worth a watch and a listen.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D7o7BrlbaDs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D7o7BrlbaDs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Eric Whitacre and his collaborators offer up a really interesting hybrid of the virtual and the real in the Virtual Choir, combining 185 separate choristers from 12 countries recorded independently, all conducted by the composer (through a prerecorded conductor track on YouTube) and combined into a single performance. Whitacre posted the announcement and instructions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}