Eric Whitacre - Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, 'Sleep'
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- "Sleep" is available now on Eric Whitacre's new album "Light & Gold."
Amazon - amzn.to/LightGoldAmazon
iTunes - bit.ly/LightGoldiTunes
The 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of 'Sleep' from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to TH-cam between September 2010 and January 2011. virtualchoir.org
Composed and Conducted by Eric Whitacre
Poetry by Charles Anthony Silvestri
Directed by rehabstudio/Cake
Design and Animation by Thiago Maia, David Pocull and Sebastian Baptista
Produced by Christophe Taddei
Audio produced by Floating Earth
Music published by Walton Music
Virtual Choir 2.0 managed by Tony Piper
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when i was in choir in highschool we had the privilege of being directed by eric whitacre and singing this song and that was one of the greatest, most unforgettable moments i have ever gotten to experience.
so lucky!
Wow! That's so cool!'
Joe Clement You have my undying jealousy! That's so cool!
+Joe Clement
lucky
So lucky!!!😔😔😔☺️☺️☺️
If I get to sing in the Heavenly Choir, I imagine it will be something like this
Me too!
It will be far better. Imagine millions, singing and filling all corners of existence
I would love to sing Eric Whitacre songs forever!
Exactly! Only x times better. :-)
Good news! There should be no "if," for we can know for sure.
1 John 5:13 "I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."
I experienced this video projected on the wall of an ancient, cavernous abbey in Belgium. The music bounced through the vaults and ancient columns of that beautiful space. It was one of the most magical moments of my life.
Andy Heppelle oh my gosh I just got the chills and cried thinking of that.
Wow, I would have loved go be there ❤
Andy Heppelle wow sounds glorious
Truly Epicco
Ohh great.....
Whitacre uses dissonance in ways I have never heard. Almost every thing he does involves dissonance. Yet he manages to make the sound of voices clashing beautiful. It is a particular talent.
Sofie Björck Good point.
Yes, it sounds like she multitracks her voice to get that standing wave effect.
I believe that if we took some of the greatest composers like Eric whitacre and ola gjeilo and had them work together on a piece that it would sound like heaven itself
The dissonance is my favorite thing about his music 😍 it takes the song to a whole different level 💕🎶
I’m in AP Music Theory this year and if you go the Advanced Placement TH-cam channel, click on music theory, and go to the last video (I think may 8,2020) he did an interview!! he explained why he loves dissonance so much and i found it amazing ❤️
This morning a very close friend of mine passed after a fight with cancer. He suffered much pain. This is so appropriate: sleep now dear friend, you are pain free and with God. I'm 66 and crying thinking of him now.
JOHN ELLS
I'm very sorry to hear that he/she passed away to early. But God always finds a way. 😉
God bless. I lost my mother in July, she suffered. Now my father. I send you and your friend my prayers, or if that is not your thing, my deepest respect.
JOHN ELLS 💙
Send you all prayers I hope you all are doing awesome now.
your heart touched me... much love
sounds like the most epic fantasy movie soundtrack
Indeed
I thought I was the only one who imagined many worlds and stories being shown to us with this song.
there's just something about people singing together like this..
listening to one person, or even a couple can be beautiful..
but so many.. it as if you can hear their souls joining together, in a harmoniously breathtaking connection..
Interesting how, with so many voices, the vowels are not as rounded, yet the sound is even richer and deeper. One of the most sonically incredible ideas I've ever heard.
perhaps it's because they cannot hear each other?
welcome to digital music and compression.
This song relies on dissonance and while our choir, which worked with Whitacre, did try to go for the perfect harmony, I think this is a beautiful version of the song. The dissonance with the off timing and less rounded adds a whole new element
When I die and when I'm welcomed into the gates of Heaven to finally meet God, this is actually what I picture the entrance of Heaven to look and sound like. Being greeted by an everlasting chorus of Angels singing. God Bless.
Bit presumptuous of you, no?
this is how the world should be. united in harmony.
Truer words were never spoken.
I’m not religious but amen
How to should be, yes. How it can be? Not anytime soon. No perfect utopia can exist besides heaven. Besides heaven, all utopias eventually become dystopias. The origin of the the word "utopia" literally means "perfect place" but also "cannot exist".
PLEASE
It will surely happen one day. If you look at the progression of human civilization it has been a slow and long process of unification. We started with families, then went to tribes, and then nations, and now we're in the process of continental unification and even intercontinental. I think this will keep happening but at a quicker rate in the next few decades and into the next century.
Music. A positive universal language. Such a beautiful thing.
Taylork64 Music is so intricately designed, yet is so beautiful and so far past the horizon of understanding that any and all cultures have music involved in their daily lives. Music already ties the people of the world together, and even the universe in its sounds cried out, creating a musical vallehalah for whatever lies beyond that glorious expanse of infinity...
Just said a neat thing there d:
Hope you enjoyed
@Dragon Whale I actually am
@Dragon Whale Indeed I am, and I just happened to be on. Did you need anything, friend?
@Dragon Whale lop well keep being curious as you are, my friend. Curiosity is a precious thing
🙏🏻✨👍🏻
And THAT ladies and gentlemen is what heaven sounds like.
Close but I hear it's even better !
I can only imagine how great it shall be .
Not that I'm a believer, but I sure as hell hope not. Eternity of this, all day, every day? No thanks
@@patrickskilz2182 God still loves you... You’ll be in my prayers... 🙏🏻✨✌🏻
@@ruthnoelmarie...9061 It was AMAZING! Jesus came to me after you prayed for me!
He agreed, this is some pretty shitty music (his words not mine). Ao we smoked a blunt and talked about hip hop for a beat. Thanks! Jesus has the best weed.
Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 2.0, 'Sleep' is also known through the eyes of any effects program as "a shitstorm of rendering". this must have taken days to render... hats off to you, your skill as a composer, and your computer.
he actually didn't edit it but yeah it actually hurt me to watch this knowing about all that rendering... Not to mention they probably had to go through all the clips one by one and mess with the audio to get it to sound good.
I just watched that Ted talk lol
@@Naomi-rf1bl I know right
@@Naomi-rf1bl I was wondering how they made it sound so good.
The harmonics of the dissonants.... goosebumps and rising hair....
From about 4:45 - 5:20: sustained quiet soprano on one note, "sleep," and quiet chord progressions from the alto, tenor, base = Absolutely exquisite movement- amid this gorgeous music.
this makes me miss my choir days so much. currently crying.
shannon miller I hate choir.....
Minty Minx what made you join chior?
shannon miller I didn't get to choose my classes
Minty Minx well choir isn't for everyone.
I love choir 😍
I am literally crying. Our world is a mess. Violence and hate is everywhere. To see so many people, from so many countries coming together like this is beautiful. This is hope for humanity. Thank you Eric! You are wonderful!
We live in the most peaceful period in human history.
Razorhawk90 looking at Syria and Yemen, I don't know if that can be said.
Are you kidding? Those places were as if not more violent 1000 years ago and everywhere else was as violent as the modern Middle East.
Razorhawk90 I still wouldn't call the world "peaceful".
Me neither.
0:56 I love the dissonance there! Sounds so good!
Is that dissonance though?
It's an honor to play this beautiful song in my marching show :)
Outstanding. Gives me hope for the human race.
The evening hangs beneath the moon
A silver thread on darkened dune
With closing eyes and resting head
I know that sleep is coming soon
Upon my pillow, safe in bed
A thousand pictures fill my head
I cannot sleep my minds a flight
And yet my limbs seem made of lead
If there are noises in the night
A frighting shadow, flickering light
Then I surrender unto sleep
Where clouds of dreams give second sight
What dreams may come both dark and deep
Of flying wings and soaring leap
As I surrender unto sleep
As I surrender unto sleep
I want this sung at my funeral.....Thank you Eric for writing this and for sharing it. It sounds like angels bearing one to ones rest. It made me cry and it gave me peace.
The human voice is the most powerful musical instrument on Earth.
My choir teacher's wife brought in their infant daughter in a carriage and placed her tenderly on the piano. She looked stressed and worn out and the baby looked fussy. We were all hanging out and they asked us to be quiet enough to let the baby sleep. They went into the office to talk. The baby grew fussy and started to whimper. Our choir very softly sang "Sleep" to her and by the end, we noticed the teachers standing behind us, teary eyed. The baby had fallen asleep. I will remember it forever
this is the trippiest thing i've ever seen
You never heard more than one person sing at the same time?
Zumbach I doubt its the more than one person. This particular rendition has thousands of singers from around the world performing in perfect harmony.
Zumbach
I think he's saying it's trippy because the video is kind of . . . well . . . trippy. Not the singing. The singing is gorgeous.
TOM OMG
jajganker not perfect at all. you can hear people ending different times
Pay attention people. This is what REAL music is.
wow you're such a special snowflake aren't you
Such a simplistic view of music, it's sad.
Just another example of humanity's ability to come together, no matter the difference, and create something new and beautiful.
This music sends chill through my whole body. I never heard any thing so beautiful .Thank You All.
I shall be ever thankful for this video, for it eased a panic attack a friend of mine was having and kept her from completely loosing touch with reality. Music can do shit like that and its wonderful.
I am in choir too...
But let me just say...
THIS SOMG IS SOO BEAUTIFUL AND I CRIED SO BAD BECAUSE IT IS SO PRETTY OMIGAWDDD
We're all in this choir
My English teacher showed me this today. Beautiful, happy he showed me.
My choir (Rebel Singers) sang this along with 450+ people at our concert with the great Eric Whitacre Himself last night at Oregon State University. It was the most beautiful thing i have ever experienced. I would give anything to do it again.
my high school choir got to sing this the year after i graduated and i was SO flipping jealous. this is easily one of my favorite choir pieces. unparalleled beauty
This moved me to tears! What an incredible thing to witness and experience! Thank you, Eric and everyone who participated in this virtual choir!
At this terrible time of coronavirus destroying our communities, its heartening to hear the good that we can achieve once under a common purpose. If only we could achieve such grace and equality in all things that we do.
This is a perfect example of how strangers all over the world, from different cultures, races and religions can create something beautiful. Now if the rest of us can follow their example, the world woul be a better place for ALL of us to live in. We are all just people. Human beings that despite our differences are all part of the same family. I hope that one day we all, ALL OF US, can live in the harmony that was beautifully presented here. Thank you for the inspiration, and the HOPE.
This was the first piece of Eric Whitacre I ever sang. I instantly fell in love with it, and I've stayed a fan ever since
The poet behind the words in the song (Charles Anthony Silvestri) actually came to my school to talk to us about the piece :) It was amazing and it really gives the song a whole new perspective.
There is also a book titled Sleep by Charles Anthony Silvestri. I had the good fortune to have him as my academic advisor and as a professor on several occasions. The story behind this is heartbreaking and inspiring. He is a wonderfully talented, unique, and inspiring individual.
I was fortunate enough to get to sing this with my choir my senior year. It was such a privilege. This song I amazingly beautiful
I was privileged enough to sing this with my all-state choir, and it can't even compare in the slightest to this sound and beauty.
I want this to be the last song I ever hear :D
I'm planning my whole memorial so that no one has to do it and it can be played remotely for those who can't make it. This song is last. :)
To be fairly honest that would be amazing, but I would not want this performance of it to be played. I think live and directed by a dear friend of mine would be even better.
Down Haven Entertainment I was literally thinking the same thing.
Yes. It is late right now and I'm ready for sleep. My mind wandered into the heavenlies, picturing my Creator and his beautiful Orchestra of different peoples around the world finally being able to rest from their weariness of this planet and singing together in harmony...rest.
"After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”
Revelation 7:9-12 NIV
bible.com/bible/111/rev.7.9-12.NIV
Amazing comment!
HOW CAN THIS MANY PEOPLE SO PERFECTLY DECRESCENDO TO NOTHING
Emma James our names are very similar wow
Emma Jones I've been called Emma Jones so many times 😂
I think he must have taken some people out at points
That, my friend, is called the magic of editing.
WITH A DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION (why are we using all caps?)
This is how we communicate with angels/ vice versa. Thank you!!!!!
I have the pleasure of having the same Choir teacher as this guy 🥰😆
Beginning Band/Choir 2019 anyone?
Miss Archie is awesome.
I cry every.damn.time I hear this.
It's not just you.
Every.
I remember singing this in high school. What an experience!
This is a seed of what we, all of us, on this earth, the dead, the unborn yet, and those of us here, can be. We are connected as depicted here, we don't know it. What a day when all of us sing as one like this. The world will be an Eden again. Thank you Eric.
If you don't get goosebumps listening to this or any other of Eric's virtual choir pieces, well, then you're just not human.
Wow, four years ago this came out. I remember being in high school and my director was so excited to show us this beautiful piece of music. We were able to play AND sing this song. I will never forget that year and how everyone was thrilled to sing it as well as play it, something our high school band doesn't do. What a nice memory I came back to.
It doesn't matter how many times I hear this song, it still gives me chills.
I have sung many songs, listen to many...and read about many. But...this song, it brought floods of tears to my eyes. I could not stop crying. To see the world, join in on something that has nothing to do with politics, or money or war. It was too good to be true, but here it plays before me, and all I can say is, pure joy, expressed love, heartrending emotions. Music is the gateway to new paths everywhere, and now, I want to go down more of them then ever before. Thank you Eric Whitacre.
Our All State Choir in Colorado sang this in 2004. Oh my word! We had so much fun with it. One of my FAVORITE songs we did that year.
The video editing on this is incredible!
you mean TOTALLY credible, lol. Soo beautiful, my heart is heavy
Ben Arkell make that 316 now
If I let myself drift off in a meditative state when I listen to this, I literally vibrate! It's so full of light .......
Yeah, I can't help but get a bit misty eyed over the concept of all these people from all over the world singing this. It makes me so happy!
I am pleased to see that there were many non-English speaking countries who took part. Mexico, Chile, Germany, Netherlands, China, etc. While there weren't many, it is powerful to note there are some. I believe there would be more, but there is a learning curve. Not necessarily with language, but with how the music was written.
Wow, pretty inspiring I would say.
YuleGenesis I'm
Gives me goose bumps, so pretty
I almost fall backwards after realizing how this virtual choir was made and listening to this beauty.
Omar Arkitekton I know right isn't it astounding, it was a jaw dropper moment for me. I would definitely recommend for you to listen to other choirs by Eric Whitacre as well!!
my god. i was a part of this. my little bubble is in this video. and this was very shortly before i graduated high school. i thought i was participating in something that would go viral at the time, by a composer i loved. i thought it was so cool to have my voice immortalized in this... but 12 years later i wasn't prepared for the emotional gut punch it would bring. in a world that's punctuated by hate, some people got together from all around the world and united for this absolutely herculean effort... just to make music. and i think that's really, really cool.
I just discovered Eric Whitacre last week while listening to Morten Lauridsen. I am beyond words after listening to this. He is incredibly gifted at capturing emotion through voice and lyrics. I was so moved to tears the first time I listened to this that I searched for more of his work. His projects with virtual choirs are not only amazing technically, but more so for bringing thousands of voices together from around the world in peace and harmony...literally. His talents are part of our national heritage and a gift to anyone who listens.
It makes me smile and cry with joy that this was made. I mean how multiple countries could all put aside our differences and come together to create something so beautiful.
Incredible stuff made possible by the internet. Vocalists submitted solos from around the world to create this virtual choir!
A most beautiful and fantastic experience to see and hear people from all over the world singing together!!!
Eric is in a class of his own....this moves the soul and comforts the heart...
Sire , I am TREMBLING right now.
It's as if someone captured the very resonance of God himself and is presenting itself to me at the time of my darkest hour, where I am most broken, the Holy One giving me peace and rest from the pains of the world and granting me entrance to his heavenly kingdom... I am awestruck, for I am hearing the Voice of God himself.
To those who dislike or complain, Eric and all the editors have done such a miraculous job putting all this together and making this fantastic piece of art. I don't think anyone should complain or "nitpick" about details that really have no significance in the long run. Same goes to those involved in VC 3 and Future VC 4.
My God, this is so beautiful. This is what heaven must be like.. Thanks to all who were involved.
So freaking amazing! I feel for the editor though, that must have taken forever!
Gosh when I thought this song couldn't get any better..
Eric W constantly tells her story in interviews, and we all hold her initiative very dear in the VC. Dont worry, recognition has been given as due.
I cried. Humankind is foolish. They can unite to sing, but cannot unite to bring world peace. This is a bittersweet beauty. It is a perennial flower, doomed to fade, but can be born again if they try, as is humanity. If humans try, if they come together, look what can come of it; beauty. Beauty beyond all else, that transcends all the hate and the prejudice and the war and the sword and gun, that can bring a light to the darkened, charred Earth, and can guide them to an age of happiness for all.
I teared up and had chills the entire time I heard this.
I felt so privileged that my show choir was about to learn this song. What an amazing piece, definitely one of my favorites
Who would have thought all those years ago we would be practicing for the summer of 2020!
Semper Fidelis Virtual Choir.
God bless you Eric.
God bless the Tenors especially those not with us now.
How do I add anything that can even come close to the sheer beauty and majesty of this piece. I'm so privileged to be human.
Just sounds and frequencies absolutely superb in unison with our soul. The day all humans vibrate at these frequencies then peace will reign over our good old planet.
Stunning. This is a peek into heaven. Stirring and painfully exquisite.
I had the privilege of singing this at BIG SING 2018 with 3000 other choral singers, and the Master Chorale. Directed by Eric. One of the most incredible choral moments of my life singing in choirs over 40 years.
Anybody still admiring this in 2020?
This is the most beautiful thing to have ever existed. Always gives me chills. We did this beautifully when I was a freshman at Tiffin University. Now a Jr.
It's REALLY amazing to me that 198 people disliked this musical manna.
I first heard this song back in 2017 ….boi time flies
I have my choir teacher to thank for finding this. She showed this to us in freshman year. For sophomore and junior year i couldn't remember this. Senor year I finally found it again.
THIS DEFINES ETHEREAL!!! I am emotionally overwhelmed by the beauty of the sound, the brilliant concept, and the connection of unity.
Water Night will always be my favorite. This one too is very touching and amazing when you see, hear, and truly understand how special humanity is.
May the world proclaim the glories of God.
Just maybe.....this world produced the children of men so that perhaps one day it might hear us all sing together. This is the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing it.
YOU MAKE ME CRY
It was like watching God conduct the universe. I was brought to tears. Beautiful!
Glorious Metaphor... Thank You.
My mother passed away when I was 16, and my brother, sister, friends and I sang this at her funeral. Such a beautiful song and makes me reminisce of her.
I just learned today that the original words to this song were supposed to be Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". But due to copyrights being extended by 20 years, it was not actually in public domain for Eric to use. He got shut down by the Frost Estate, and the words were replaced with the current words written by Poet Charles Anthony Silvestri.
I know it's not true, but to me I like to think that happened so that the current words to this composition could be there to sing my mother to sleep.
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/?fbclid=IwAR2FmU6njCPQzsZa-QdU9dxVRUe_sQ4GA2QVZBXtoegOMtMVVy2VDzeZZfY
Words cannot describe. SO BEAUTIFUL. Thanks you Eric for bringing music to the internet in a whole new way!
Music one of the few threads that can tie humanity together. I think this project and video perfectly embody that concept. People from all over the world can unite under music, and for even a brief moment share a moment of harmony.
i remember singing this. the release of this video was the BEST high school graduation present ever!!!!! (that, and my 'i passed trig' graduation party cake lol)
There is no musical sound more powerful than voices of many sounding as one.
This is truly what the Internet was intended for: the blissful global union of humanity singing together in perfect harmony. I'm still dismayed that this project has not captured the real scope of attention in the world. This alone is a monumental occurrence of historical proportions, one which has passed almost inadvertently. What's happening with us?
goosebumps... each single time!
I know this from the TED . It's really amazing! I haven't be part of the choir more than 12 years. It remains me the feeling of the music is still in the deep of my heart. I wish I could be a member of the virtual choir 3.0. But I think I need to prove my english first then find some friends have a common goal.
I had the privilege of performing this with the Carthage Choir on a tour of Ireland and Scotland way back in January of 2012, and this piece in the cathedral we sang at in Galway sounded positively divine. It was as if Whitacre had written it for that space and that space alone.
Now that people are stuck at home due to the Corona virus, the time is ripe for another Virtual Choir.
Should do a virtual brass ensemble. If this is what thousands of voices sound like, I bet thousands of brass instruments would be a tremendously rich sound.