The Best Thing I've Been Involved With In Awhile

I don't know how many people know about this but you must. Watch. The. VIDEO. NOW!

For all of you who don't know, this is 2052 different singers all singing the same song "Sleep." composed and directed by Eric Whitacre.  How?  Youtube.  Really!  Eric uploaded the conductor's track with basic piano accompaniment (what plays during the credits).  Then all the singers just recorded themselves singing their part.  All these videos were then uploaded to youtube.  I got to participate in this recording- and you have to know that it is the most incredible thing I've experienced in awhile.

Since leaving for college I haven't been able to be in a good choir like I'm used to- my band is during the same time as the choir on campus and I don't have a way to get off campus.  So this basically became my singing outlet.  I was able to watch this video be released live last Thursday at 6.  I cried.  It was so beautiful! Plus Eric Whitacre himself was there talking about the videos and how it was all put together.  Apparently syncing 2052 different videos is really HARD!  I still don't know how they all did it- especially since everything says the word "Sleep" about 40 times.  And all singers can back me up on this- S is a terrible sound to get people to sing together. Ssssssleeep.  Ssssleeep.

During Mr. Whitacre's interview after the premiere of the video someone asked him if everyone's face was in the video.  The response?  "Everyone's face and voice is in the video at some point. That was job number 1." (In fact if you look closely you can see the top of my head at 0:23 on the front sphere on the bottom center!)  It's things like this that really bring people together.  I keep seeing the twitter feed about everyone banning together to make the video available in Germany and allow everyone to see it.  And there are 52 countries represented!  How cool is that?  Seriously, it's just incredible.

Watch the video, if it doesn't move you, I'm not sure what will.