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This will likely be the most beautiful thing you will see and hear all day. Please share it with your friends.

I’m a sucker for choral music and when I found this over on Kevin Kelly‘s blog The Technium I just had to share it with you. It’s a virtual choir assembled by Eric Whitacre, comprised of 185 voices from 12 countries.

Here’s what Kelly had to say:

Many critics of web technology complain that there is nothing special enabled by social media which you could not do with traditional media. Yes, you could make a choir of 200, but it would probably not sing like this. Take a look at this virtual choir. It brings 185 voices, all recorded independently at home, and then combined into a virtual choir. Each voice (available on the side of the video) is expert, each face unique; combined they are heavenly. Could you do a choir of 1,000? Yes!

Whitacre gave his singers these instructions and this was the result:

The visual presentation at first blush may appear to be a tad corny but this deserves to be watched full screen in HD – go here to do just that. All those rapt faces, singing alone and together at the same time – if ever there was an expression of the larger gifts the web is bringing to us, this is it.

Cheers.