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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.44,0:00:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eric Whitacre: SLEEP VIRTUAL CHOIR
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.10,0:00:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Singing voices in background, all through the presentation: choral musical excerpt from "Sleep"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.35,0:00:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> ERIC: It all started with this one young\Ngirl who sent me this video of herself singing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.08,0:00:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of my choral pieces, and I was struck\Nso hard by it - the beauty, the intimicy of it...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.38,0:00:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Eric Whitacre. Composer and Conductor)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.11,0:00:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...the sweetness of it, and I thought it would\Nbe amazing if we could get 100 people
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.12,0:00:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do this and cut it all together and make\Na virtual choir. So I then went into the studio
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.10,0:00:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I conducted in total silence, and I could\Nonly hear it in my head, and I loaded all of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.23,0:00:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that up to YouTube, and I sent out a call\Nto singers across the world and the response
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.63,0:00:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was totally overwhelming. We had 185 singers\Nfrom 12 different countries. It was all about
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.94,0:00:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connecting with these people all over the world...\Nand... these individuals, alone, together.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.88,0:01:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we did "Lux", then I think we really started\Ngetting it, so this time we're going to go
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.00,0:01:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back, do "Sleep" for real. Just the way I always\Nimagined it would be. For me, singing together
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.06,0:01:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making music together is a fundamental\Nhuman experience, and I love the idea that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.94,0:01:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technology can bring people together from\Nall over the world and get people to participate
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.03,0:01:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this... in this transcending experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.98,0:01:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be a part of the next Virtual Choir, visit: WWW.ERICWHITACRE.COM