We Created This Virtual Choir To Spread Hope

While the world is unable to share in community and especially music, our choir - the Salt Lake Symphonic Choir - wanted to continue to spread hope and joy through music. We were due to perform Somewhere Over the Rainbow at our spring concert in May, but naturally we can't do that anymore. Strangely, it perhaps has even more significance now because of the global symbolism of the rainbow. So we spent a good number of hours individually recording ourselves singing our own parts and assembling a 'virtual choir' video of all of us singing together.

We firstly stripped the audio from each individual video, cleaned it up in Adobe Audition and mixed all 60+ individual singers down in Apple Logic to get a good sounding stereo mix. We then went back to the videos and imported them into Adobe Premiere Pro video editing software, synced them up with the final audio mix, and got creative with our virtual choir video. The whole process? A mere 120 hours.

But it was worth it. We were able to continue as best we could to share with each other the joy of singing in a choir, but more importantly were create a moment of musical happiness for those isolated or struggling at this difficult time, a remote and virtual performance though it may be. Community is everything. It's something we didn't even know we took for granted, but now that it's difficult to find, we wanted to do so our best to bring it back, and to create a wider community with the rest of the world.

More info: slschoir.com