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celestial choir man snores

phone rings celestial choir

It wasn't a virtual choir.

Listen, you've got to join choir.

All right, what's Virtual Choir 2.0?

This is Sleep, the Virtual Choir.

I call that the hidden choir.

Like the voice of a heavenly choir

Like the voice Of a heavenly choir

And the choir conductor there knew that I sang and invited me to come and join the choir.

This is Lux Aurumque sung by the Virtual Choir.

Let's try it again. (Music) Oh, the TED choir.

I'm Richard Carter, and this is the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.

And then just last spring we released Virtual Choir 3,

I had an idea it was The Mormon Tabernacle Choir...

I feel a closeness to this choir almost like a family.

I also became a part of a choir using sign language.

Northern Ireland, Catholic, Protestant, children's choir and ended with Bono in Dublin

She has been invited to sing in a choir in a foreign country.

In its essence, the orchestra and the choir are much more than artistic structures.

In an audience as sophisticated as this one, that would be preaching to the choir.

It wasn't a bad debut for the TED choir, not a bad debut at all.

And once again, in Edinburgh with the wonderful African Children's Choir who I simply adore.

Improbably, this LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change,

Virtual Choir we will be singing Sleep a piece that I wrote in the year 2000.

I was very lucky, I discovered my talent in primary school when a local choir recruited me.

(Music) And we released to YouTube this, the Virtual Choir Project, 185 singers from 12 different countries.

What I'd like to close with then today is the first look at Sleep by Virtual Choir 2.0.

And so I decided for Virtual Choir 2.0 that I would choose the same piece that Britlin was singing,

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

One father, who had initially balked at his daughter coming out in such a choir, now writes songs for them.

Virtual Choir 2, 2,052 singers from 58 different countries, this time performing a piece that I had written called Sleep.

So Richard came up from Houston last year to visit us in Detroit here and show the wonderful Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.

The very first Virtual Choir was Sleep, but that was really just a test to see if the concept would work.

Choir I'm hooked on a feelin' I'm high on believin' That you're in love with me

I decided to write a piece for choir a couple of years later as a gift to this conductor who had changed my life.

The choir people in my high school were pretty geeky, and there was no way I was going to have anything to do with those people.

That's why the child's development in the orchestra and the choir provides him with a noble identity and makes him a role model for his family and community.

And I went to my first day in choir, and I sat down with the basses and sort of looked over my shoulder to see what they were doing.

And it's in complete silence when I filmed it, because I was only hearing the music in my head, imagining the choir that would one day come to be.

Composer and Conductor) ...the sweetness of it, and I thought it would be amazing if we could get 100 people to do this and cut it all together and make a virtual choir.

And when I was speaking to Chris about the future of Virtual Choir and where we might be able to take this, he challenged me to push the technology as far as we possibly could.

I found a poem by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz, and decided to set it to music, a piece for choir called Cloudburst, which is the piece that we'll perform for you in just a moment.