Eric Whitacre TED Talk

Eric is a very open minded man that came up with some great ideas, and knew how to execute them. His presentation about a virtual choir with 2,000 voices was not only genius, but has a lot of future potential. Eric, through a lot of convincing, joined choir in college and became very acquainted with his whole class and choir teacher. At the end of his years at college he wrote a piece of music as a gift to the choir director. A few weeks later, a girl on the internet sang the soprano part to one of his pieces, "Sleep". This triggered a huge thought in his mind. He wondered if he could get enough people to do the same thing, he could possibly make a virtual choir! So, he took action and added a video of him conducting the song, and he got a HUGE amount of people that joined in and sang the song that he had composed. Then, a voluntary editor edited the whole entire thing and put them all singing together in a video. I think that these ideas have even more potential for the future. Just watching this made some of my own ideas spark in my head. What about a virtual play or virtual game? Or even a virtual movie!!! With all of the parts put together by the people of the internet, we could accomplish some pretty crazy stuff!!!!! This definitely excites me and I want to almost take action myself! Overall, this presentation blew my head off and I may consider trying some of my own ideas too!!!