{"id":628,"date":"2012-07-08T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/a-choir-made-from-a-chrowd-hundreds-contribute-to-charity-choir-sample-instrument\/"},"modified":"2012-07-08T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T14:48:00","slug":"a-choir-made-from-a-chrowd-hundreds-contribute-to-charity-choir-sample-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/a-choir-made-from-a-chrowd-hundreds-contribute-to-charity-choir-sample-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"A Choir Made from a Chrowd: Hundreds Contribute to Charity Choir Sample Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/createdigitalmusic.com\/2012\/07\/a-choir-made-from-a-chrowd-hundreds-contribute-to-charity-choir-sample-instrument\/\">A Choir Made from a Chrowd: Hundreds Contribute to Charity Choir Sample Instrument<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/createdigitalmusic.com\/files\/2012\/07\/crowd.jpg?resize=625%2C403\" title=\"crowd\" width=\"625\"><\/p>\n<div>We hear a lot about the \u201cwisdom of crowds.\u201d Now, here\u2019s the voice of the crowd. Photo (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC-BY<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/james.cridland.net\/\">James Cridland<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Every choir is, in a sense, crowd-sourced. In this case, a set of choir samples were composed from \u201cchoir members\u201d from around the globe who never met each other.<br \/>In Soniccouture\u2019s new Chrowdchoir instrument, over a thousand people contributed individual sounds, which were then put together to produce the ensemble instrument. As the developers describe it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u2018Crowd-choir\u2019 was an idea for a crowd-sourced sampled instrument, partly inspired by the 10cc track \u2018I\u2019m not in love\u2019, which famously featured a vocal pad sound created by painstakingly over- dubbing a single vocal note over and over again.<br \/>The plan was to get hundreds of people all around the world to sing one note each from a 3 octave range \u2013 then layer these recordings in a sampler to create a unique vocal sound \u2013 a wash of different voices in different rooms in different countries.<br \/>Each participant was provided with instructions on how best to record their note \u2013 which format, sample rate etc \u2013 and a web form by which they could upload the audio file along with their name and email address.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In three months, the developers collected some 4,000 notes.<br \/>They\u2019re not just exploiting the crowd. The instrument, available now for \u00a320 \/ \u20ac20 \/ $25, will be sold for charity, with profits donated to The Red Cross.<br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soniccouture.com\/\">soniccouture.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/createdigitalmusic.com\/files\/2012\/07\/Final-Crowdchoir-instrument-640x483.jpg?resize=625%2C472\" title=\"Final Crowdchoir instrument\" width=\"625\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http:\/\/createdigitalmusic.com\/2012\/07\/a-choir-made-from-a-chrowd-hundreds-contribute-to-charity-choir-sample-instrument\/&#038;via=cdmblogs&#038;text=A%20Choir%20Made%20from%20a%20Chrowd:%20Hundreds%20Contribute%20to%20Charity%20Choir%20Sample%20Instrument&#038;related=:&#038;lang=en&#038;count=horizontal\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Choir Made from a Chrowd: Hundreds Contribute to Charity Choir Sample Instrument: We hear a lot about the \u201cwisdom of crowds.\u201d Now, here\u2019s the voice of the crowd. Photo (CC-BY) James Cridland. Every choir is, in a sense, crowd-sourced. In this case, a set of choir samples were composed from \u201cchoir members\u201d from around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}