A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong | Eric Whitacre

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I wanted to be a rock star.

Želio sam biti rock zvijezda.

I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of.

Sanjao sam o tome, i samo o tome.

To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star.

Da budem precizniji, htio sam biti pop zvijezda.

This was in the late '80s.

To su bile kasne 80-e.

And mostly I wanted to be the fifth member

I najviše sam od svega htio biti peti član

of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

Depeche Modea ili Duran Durana.

They wouldn't have me.

Nisu me htjeli.

I didn't read music, but I played synthesizers and drum machines.

Nisam čitao note, ali sam svirao klavijature i bubnjeve.

And I grew up in this little farming town in northern Nevada.

Odrastao sam u malom poljoprivrednom gradiću u sjevernoj Nevadi.

And I was certain that's what my life would be.

I bio sam siguran da će takav biti moj život.

And when I went to college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

A kad sam otišao na fakultet na Sveučilištu Nevada u Las Vegasu

when I was 18,

kada mi je bilo 18 godina,

I was stunned to find

bio sam zatečen kad sam otkrio

that there was not a Pop Star 101,

da ne postoji predmet kako postati pop zvijezda,

or even a degree program for that interest.

a čak ni smjer za to područje.

And the choir conductor there

Zborovođa je znao da

knew that I sang

pjevam

and invited me to come and join the choir.

pa me pozvao da dođem i pridružim se zboru.

And I said, "Yes, I would love to do that. It sounds great."

Rekao sam: „Da, volio bih to. Zvuči odlično.“

And I left the room and said, "No way."

Izašao sam iz sobe i rekao, „Nema šanse.“

The choir people in my high school were pretty geeky,

Zboraši su u mojoj srednjoj bili poprilični štreberi

and there was no way I was going to have anything to do with those people.

i nije bilo šanse da imam nešto s tim ljudima.

And about a week later, a friend of mine came to me and said,

Otprilike tjedan dana poslije, prijatelj mi je došao i rekao:

"Listen, you've got to join choir.

„Slušaj, moraš doći u zbor.

At the end of the semester, we're taking a trip to Mexico,

Na kraju semestra idemo na put u Mexico,

all expenses paid.

svi troškovi plaćeni.

And the soprano section is just full of hot girls."

A imamo jako puno zgodnih soprana.“

And so I figured for Mexico and babes,

Shvatio sam da bih za Mexico i cure

I could do just about anything.

učinio skoro sve.

And I went to my first day in choir,

Otišao sam i svoj prvi dan u zboru

and I sat down with the basses

sjeo sam s basovima

and sort of looked over my shoulder

i gledao preko ramena

to see what they were doing.

da vidim što rade.

They opened their scores, the conductor gave the downbeat,

Otvorili su note, zborovođa je označio početak

and boom, they launched into the Kyrie

i, bum, počeli su pjevati Kyrie

from the "Requiem" by Mozart.

iz Mozartova „Requiema“.

In my entire life I had seen in black and white,

Cijelog sam života gledao crno-bijelo

and suddenly everything was in shocking Technicolor.

i odjednom je sve bilo u šokantnom Technicoloru.

The most transformative experience I've ever had --

Iskustvo koje me najviše promijenilo –

in that single moment, hearing dissonance and harmony

u tom jednom trenutku kad sam čuo disonance i harmoniju

and people singing, people together,

i ljude koji pjevaju, ljude zajedno,

the shared vision.

zajedničku viziju.

And I felt for the first time in my life

Prvi sam puta u životu osjetio

that I was part of something bigger than myself.

da sam dio nečega većeg od mene samog.

And there were a lot of cute girls in the soprano section, as it turns out.

I ispostavilo se da je ipak bilo zgodnih soprana.

I decided to write a piece for choir

Odlučio sam napisati zborsku skladbu

a couple of years later

nekoliko godina kasnije

as a gift to this conductor

kao dar zborovođi

who had changed my life.

koji je promijenio moj život.

I had learned to read music by then, or slowly learning to read music.

Dotad sam naučio čitati note, ili sam polako učio čitati ih.

And that piece was published,

I to je djelo bilo objavljeno,

and then I wrote another piece, and that got published.

onda sam napisao još jedno i to se objavilo.

And then I started conducting,

Onda sam počeo dirigirati

and I ended up doing my master's degree at the Juilliard School.

i završio sam na izradi magisterija na Juilliardu.

And I find myself now in the unlikely position

I sad se nalazim u malo vjerojatnom položaju

of standing in front of all of you

da stojim pred svima vama

as a professional classical composer and conductor.

kao profesionalni klasični skladatelj i dirigent.

Well a couple of years ago,

Prije nekoliko godina

a friend of mine emailed me

prijatelj mi je proslijedio link,

a link, a YouTube link,

YouTube link

and said, "You have got to see this."

i rekao je, „Moraš ovo vidjeti.“

And it was this young woman who had posted a fan video to me,

Bila je to mlada žena koja mi je poslala fan video

singing the soprano line

u kojemu je pjevala sopran

to a piece of mine called "Sleep."

iz mog djela „Sleep.“

(Video) Britlin Losee: Hi Mr. Eric Whitacre.

(Video) Britlin Losee: Bok, gospodine Eric Whitacre.

My name is Britlin Losee,

Zovem se Britlin Losee

and this is a video

i ovo je video

that I'd like to make for you.

koji sam napravila za vas.

Here's me singing "Sleep."

Ovdje ja pjevam „Sleep.“

I'm a little nervous, just to let you know.

Pomalo sam nervozna, samo da znate.

♫ If there are noises ♫

♫ Ukoliko postoje zvukovi ♫

♫ in the night ♫

♫ u noći ♫

Eric Whitacre: I was thunderstruck.

Eric Whitacre: Ostao sam zabezeknut.

Britlin was so innocent and so sweet,

Britlin je bila tako nevina i slatka,

and her voice was so pure.

a njen je glas bio tako čist.

And I even loved seeing behind her;

Svidjelo mi se gledati i iza nje.

I could see the little teddy bear sitting on the piano behind her in her room.

Mogao sam vidjeti malog plišanog medvjeda kako sjedi na klaviru iza nje u njezinoj sobi.

Such an intimate video.

Tako intiman video.

And I had this idea: if I could get 50 people

I došao sam na sljedeću ideju: ako bih mogao dobiti 50 ljudi

to all do this same thing,

da svi naprave ovo isto,

sing their parts -- soprano, alto, tenor and bass --

otpjevati svoje dionice – sopran, alt, tenor, bas –

wherever they were in the world, post their videos to YouTube,

gdje god bili u svijetu, objaviti svoje snimke na YouTube,

we could cut it all together and create a virtual choir.

mogli bismo ih sve zajedno spojiti i stvoriti virtualni zbor.

So I wrote on my blog, "OMG OMG."

Na svoj sam blog napisao: „OMG OMG.“

I actually wrote, "OMG,"

Doslovno sam napisao „OMG,“

hopefully for the last time in public ever.

nadam se zadnji put u javnosti.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And I sent out this call to singers.

I uputio sam ovaj poziv pjevačima.

And I made free the download of the music

Učinio sam download nota

to a piece that I had written in the year 2000

za skladbu koju sam napisao 2000. godine

called "Lux Aurumque," which means "light and gold."

„Lux Aurumque“, što znači „svjetlost i zlato“ besplatnim.

And lo and behold, people started uploading their videos.

I gle, ljudi su počeli objavljivati svoje snimke.

Now I should say, before that,

Trebam reći, prije toga

what I did is I posted a conductor track

sam objavio snimku

of myself conducting.

sebe kako dirigiram.

And it's in complete silence when I filmed it,

U potpunoj je tišini kad sam je snimao

because I was only hearing the music in my head,

zato što sam samo slušao glazbu u svojoj glavi,

imagining the choir that would one day come to be.

zamišljajući zbor koji će jednog dana nastati.

Afterwards, I played a piano track underneath

Poslije sam odsvirao glasovirsku pratnju ispod

so that the singers would have something to listen to.

da bi pjevači imali što slušati.

And then as the videos started to come in ...

I onda kad su snimke počele pristizati ...

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

This is Cheryl Ang from Singapore.

Ovo je Cheryl Ang iz Singapura.

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

This is Evangelina Etienne

Ovo je Evangelina Etienne

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

from Massachusetts.

iz Massachusettsa.

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

Stephen Hanson from Sweden.

Stephen Hanson iz Švedske.

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

This is Jamal Walker from Dallas, Texas.

Ovo je Jamal Walker iz Dallasa u Texasu.

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

There was even a little soprano solo in the piece,

Bila je čak i mala sopranska solo dionica u skladbi

and so I had auditions.

tako da sam održao audiciju.

And a number of sopranos uploaded their parts.

Dosta je soprana objavilo svoje dionice.

I was told later,

Kasnije mi je rečeno,

and also by lots of singers who were involved in this,

i mnogo mi je pjevača koji su sudjelovali u tome

that they sometimes recorded 50 or 60 different takes

reklo da su ponekad morali snimiti 50 ili 60 različitih snimaka

until they got just the right take -- they uploaded it.

dok nisu dobili baš onu pravu koju su objavili.

Here's our winner of the soprano solo.

Evo pobjednice našeg natječaja za solista.

This is Melody Myers from Tennessee.

Ovo je Melanie Myers iz Tennesseeja.

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

I love the little smile she does right over the top of the note --

Volim ovaj mali smiješak što napravi na vrhu tona,

like, "No problem, everything's fine."

kao da kaže „Nema problema, sve je u redu.“

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And from the crowd

Iz mase

emerged this young man, Scott Haines.

je izašao ovaj mladi čovjek, Scott Haines.

And he said, "Listen, this is the project

Rekao je „Slušaj, ovo je projekt

I've been looking for my whole life.

koji tražim cijeli život.

I'd like to be the person to edit this all together."

Volio bih urediti sve ovo u jedno.“

I said, "Thank you, Scott. I'm so glad that you found me."

Rekao sam, „Hvala ti, Scott. Tako mi je drago što si me našao.“

And Scott aggregated all of the videos.

Scott je skupio sve snimke.

He scrubbed the audio.

Doradio je zvuk.

He made sure that everything lined up.

Pobrinuo se da je sve usklađeno.

And then we posted this video to YouTube about a year and a half ago.

I onda je objavio ovaj video na YouTube prije otprilike godinu i pol.

This is "Lux Aurumque" sung by the Virtual Choir.

Ovo je „Lux Aurumque“ kojeg pjeva Virtualni zbor.

(Singing)

(Pjevanje)

I'll stop it there in the interest of time.

Tu ću zaustaviti zbog vremena.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you. Thank you.

Hvala vam. Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

So there's more. There's more.

Ima još. Ima još.

Thank you so much.

Hvala vam puno.

And I had the same reaction you did.

Reagirao sam isto kao i vi.

I actually was moved to tears when I first saw it.

Ganulo me do suza kad sam prvi puta ovo vidio.

I just couldn't believe the poetry of all of it --

Nisam mogao vjerovati poetičnosti svega ovoga –

these souls all on their own desert island,

sve ove duše na svojim osamljenim otocima

sending electronic messages in bottles to each other.

koje si šalju elektroničke poruke u boci jedni drugima.

And the video went viral.

I video je postao zarazan.

We had a million hits in the first month

Imali smo milijun gledatelja prvi mjesec

and got a lot of attention for it.

i dobili smo mnogo pažnje za njega.

And because of that, then a lot of singers started saying,

Zbog toga je mnogo pjevača reklo,

"All right, what's Virtual Choir 2.0?"

„Dobro, što je Virtualni zbor 2.0?“

And so I decided for Virtual Choir 2.0

Odlučio sam za Virtualni zbor 2.0

that I would choose the same piece that Britlin was singing,

izabrati onu skladbu koju je Britlin pjevala,

"Sleep," which is another work

„Sleep“ , to je još jedno djelo

that I wrote in the year 2000 --

koje sam skladao 2000. –

poetry by my dear friend Charles Anthony Silvestri.

na pjesmu mog dragog prijatelja Charlesa Anthonyja Silvestrija.

And again, I posted a conductor video,

Ponovno sam objavio dirigentsku snimku

and we started accepting submissions.

i počeli smo primati prijave.

This time we got some more mature members.

Ovog smo puta dobili zrelije članove.

(Singing)

(Pjeva)

And some younger members.

I neke mlađe.

(Video) Soprano: ♫ Upon my pillow ♫

(Video) Sopran: ♫ Na mom jastuku ♫

♫ Safe in bed ♫

♫ Siguran u krevetu ♫

EW: That's Georgie from England. She's only nine.

To je Georgie iz Engleske. Ima samo devet godina.

Isn't that the sweetest thing you've ever seen?

Nije li to nešto najslađe što ste ikad vidjeli?

Someone did all eight videos --

Netko je napravio svih osam snimaka

a bass even singing the soprano parts.

– bas je čak otpjevao sopranske dionice.

This is Beau Awtin.

Ovo je Beau Awtin.

(Video) Beau Awtin: ♫ Safe in bed ♫

(Video) Beau Awtin: ♫ Siguran u krevetu ♫

EW: And our goal -- it was sort of an arbitrary goal --

I naš cilj – bio je to prilično proizvoljan cilj –

there was an MTV video where they all sang "Lollipop"

bio je MTV video u kojem su svi pjevali „Lollipop“

and they got people from all over the world to just sing that little melody.

i doveli su ljude iz cijelog svijeta da otpjevaju samo tu malu melodiju.

And there were 900 people involved in that.

I 900 je ljudi sudjelovalo u tome.

So I told the singers, "That's our goal.

Rekao sam pjevačima, „To nam je cilj,

That's the number for us to beat."

to je broj koji moramo prestići.“

And we just closed submissions January 10th,

Zatvorili smo prijave 10. siječnja

and our final tally was 2,051 videos

i konačan broj bio je 2.051 snimak

from 58 different countries.

iz 58 različitih zemalja.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

From Malta, Madagascar, Thailand, Vietnam,

S Malte, Madagaskara, Tajlanda, Vijetnama,

Jordan, Egypt, Israel,

Jordana, Egipta, Izraela,

as far north as Alaska and as far south as New Zealand.

od sjevera i Aljaske do juga i Novog Zelanda.

And we also put a page on Facebook

Stavili smo stranicu i na Facebook

for the singers to upload their testimonials,

na kojem su pjevači mogli stavljati svoje izjave,

what it was like for them, their experience singing it.

kako im je bilo, njihovo iskustvo pjevanja toga.

And I've just chosen a few of them here.

Ovdje sam izabrao njih nekoliko.

"My sister and I used to sing in choirs together constantly.

„Moja sestra i ja smo prije stalno pjevali u zborovima zajedno.

Now she's an airman in the air force constantly traveling.

Sad je u zračnim snagama i stalno putuje.

It's so wonderful to sing together again!"

Predivno je ponovno pjevati zajedno.“

I love the idea that she's singing with her sister.

Sviđa mi se ideja da ona pjeva sa svojom sestrom.

"Aside from the beautiful music,

„Osim prekrasne glazbe,

it's great just to know I'm part of a worldwide community of people I never met before,

odlično je znati da sam dio međunarodne zajednice ljudi koje nikad nisam upoznao,

but who are connected anyway."

ali koji su opet povezani.“

And my personal favorite,

I moj osobni favorit,

"When I told my husband that I was going to be a part of this,

„Kad sam rekla mužu da ću biti dio ovoga

he told me that I did not have the voice for it."

rekao mi je da nemam glas za to.“

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of you have heard that too.

Siguran sam da vas je mnogo to čulo.

Me too.

I ja isto.

"It hurt so much, and I shed some tears,

„Toliko me boljelo i pustila sam suzu,

but something inside of me wanted to do this despite his words.

ali je nešto unutar mene željelo to napraviti unatoč njegovim riječima.

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir,

Ovo je poput ostvarenja sna, biti dio ovog zbora

as I've never been part of one.

jer nikad nisam bila dio nijednog zbora.

When I placed a marker on the Google Earth Map,

Kad sam stavila oznaku na Google Earth Map,

I had to go with the nearest city, which is about 400 miles away from where I live.

morala sam otići do najbližeg grada koji je udaljen otprilike 400 milja od mjesta gdje ja živim.

As I am in the Great Alaskan Bush,

Kako sam u Velikoj Divljini Aljaske,

satellite is my connection to the world."

satelit je moja jedina veza sa svijetom."

So two things struck me deeply about this.

Dvije su me stvari u ovome duboko pogodile.

The first is that human beings

Prva je ta da će ljudska bića

will go to any lengths necessary

učiniti što god treba

to find and connect with each other.

da nađu i povežu se jedni s drugima.

It doesn't matter the technology.

Bez obzira na tehnologiju.

And the second is

Druga je ta

that people seem to be experiencing an actual connection.

da ljudi osjećaju pravu povezanost.

It wasn't a virtual choir.

To nije bio virtualan zbor.

There are people now online that are friends; they've never met.

Ima ljudi koji su online i koji su prijatelji, a nisu se nikada upoznali.

But, I know myself too, I feel

Znam i sebe, osjećam

this virtual esprit de corps, if you will, with all of them.

ovaj virtualni esprit de corps sa svima njima.

I feel a closeness to this choir --

Osjećam bliskost s ovim zborom.

almost like a family.

Skoro kao obitelj.

What I'd like to close with then today

Htio bih završiti

is the first look

s prvim predstavljanjem

at "Sleep" by Virtual Choir 2.0.

skladbe „Sleep“ Virtualnog Zbora 2.0.

This will be a premiere today.

Ovo će danas biti premijera.

We're not finished with the video yet.

Nismo još gotovi s videom.

You can imagine, with 2,000 synchronized YouTube videos,

Možete zamisliti, s 2.000 sinkroniziranih YouTube snimaka,

the render time is just atrocious.

vrijeme prikaza je grozno.

But we do have the first three minutes.

Ali imamo prve tri minute.

And it's a tremendous honor

I iznimna mi je čast

for me to be able to show it to you here first.

pokazati vam to prvima.

You're the very first people to see this.

Prvi ste ljudi koji će to vidjeti.

This is "Sleep," the Virtual Choir.

Ovo je „Sleep“, Virtualni Zbor.

(Video) Virtual Choir: ♫ The evening hangs ♫

(Video) Virtualni zbor: ♫ Večer visi ♫

♫ beneath the moon ♫

♫ ispod mjeseca ♫

♫ A silver thread on darkened dune ♫

♫ Srebrna nit na tamnoj dini ♫

♫ With closing eyes and resting head ♫

♫ Sa zatvorenim očima i glavom koja miruje ♫

♫ I know that sleep is coming soon ♫

♫ Znam da san dolazi uskoro ♫

♫ Upon my pillow, ♫

♫ Na mom jastuku, ♫

♫ safe in bed, ♫

♫ siguran u krevetu, ♫

♫ a thousand pictures fill my head ♫

♫ tisuće slika ispune moju glavu ♫

♫ I cannot sleep ♫

♫ Ne mogu spavati ♫

♫ my mind's aflight ♫

♫ moj um je razbuđen ♫

♫ and yet my limbs seem made of lead ♫

♫ a ipak moji udovi kao da su napravljeni od olova ♫

♫ If there are noises in the night ♫

♫ Ako postoje zvukovi u noći ♫

Eric Whitacre: Thank you very, very much. Thank you.

Eric Whitacre: Puno vam, puno hvala. Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

Puno vam hvala. Hvala vam. Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)