Dan Harding
Deputy Director of Music Colyer-Fergusson Building | University of Kent
We’re now into the third week of the Virtual Music Project, and the recording have been hurtling in from people’s homes as more musicians get involved in creating the virtual performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria.
The project’s raison d’être – to use music to bring people together at a time when circumstances are forcing them apart – is nowhere more apparent than when looking at the various locations from whence participants are sending in their recordings. One of the virtues of being forced into creating and delivering a project that is, of necessity, executed online is the opportunity for people to engage with the project wherever they might be; and we’ve had responses this week from some pretty far-flung corners of the world.
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| Aisha from Luxembourg |
As well as people recording from sites right across the UK – from Whitstable and Herne Bay to Wiltshire, Bristol, Somerset, Northamptonshire and Yorkshire – the project has mobilised students and alumni from overseas; from Germany, Luxembourg, and this morning the inbox rang with a submission from a former student in Tokyo. This endeavour really is defeating distance, bringing musicians together and giving them a focus and sense of participation in a creative project at a time when we are all having to find new ways of being, ways in which to adjust to the sudden changes forced upon us.
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| Junko from Tokyo |
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| Laura from Germany |
So, as the virtual studio expands as more recordings are added to the mix, it’s beginning to take on epic proportions. The voices and instruments coming together in the recording really are from all around the country and from around the world. You can listen to an excerpt from a first voices-only mix of the project here:
Exciting times…
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