Massively multiplayer music
August 9, 2019 8:51 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for videos of music being performed by tons of people. Maybe they're just edited together like this video of 40 musicians independently covering Porcupine Tree's Trains or maybe they gathered together like the 1000 musicians in Cesena playing Learning To Fly.
For the purposes of this question, I'm not looking for things like big band, orchestras, GYBE, etc. Those groups, while large, regularly play together and are playing music intentionally composed for large groups, which for some reason doesn't feel the same. I want the schmoop that comes from disparate people who might not have any ongoing reason to associate coming together physically or virtually to play the same song. Is there more of this out there than just the linked examples?
For the purposes of this question, I'm not looking for things like big band, orchestras, GYBE, etc. Those groups, while large, regularly play together and are playing music intentionally composed for large groups, which for some reason doesn't feel the same. I want the schmoop that comes from disparate people who might not have any ongoing reason to associate coming together physically or virtually to play the same song. Is there more of this out there than just the linked examples?
Best answer: "Bonehemian Rhapsody" 28-Trombone Collaboration
posted by Wobbuffet at 9:51 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Wobbuffet at 9:51 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
Massive Beethoven 9th
posted by JimN2TAW at 10:41 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Massive Beethoven 9th
posted by JimN2TAW at 10:41 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Courtney Love in Florence- Celebrity Skin
Really any of the videos from Rockin’ 1000.
posted by Champagne Supernova at 11:25 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Really any of the videos from Rockin’ 1000.
posted by Champagne Supernova at 11:25 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Apartment Sessions! Motherlode here
posted by thelonius at 11:41 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by thelonius at 11:41 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: 77 Boadrum! 88 Boadrum! 111 Boadrum!
posted by sagc at 12:14 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by sagc at 12:14 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Kutiman's ThruYou is the solid gold standard here. Simply incredible audiovisual match ups of dozens of YouTube videos. He also did a follow-up and similar projects.
InBflat lets you make custom remixes of a bunch of people exploring the same soothing theme on a wide variety of instruments.
Dozens of people spread throughout an apartment building cover Arcade Fire's anthemic "Wake Up" in one take.
posted by Rhaomi at 12:42 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
InBflat lets you make custom remixes of a bunch of people exploring the same soothing theme on a wide variety of instruments.
Dozens of people spread throughout an apartment building cover Arcade Fire's anthemic "Wake Up" in one take.
posted by Rhaomi at 12:42 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Would you like to hear 1,500 people sing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" with Rufus Wainwright? (YT, From Choir! Choir! Choir!)
posted by MonkeyToes at 12:51 PM on August 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by MonkeyToes at 12:51 PM on August 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
Best answer: I can't find the specific video I used to watch years ago, but in googling for it, I found out it's a whole thing for people on nico nico douga to do!
posted by gaybobbie at 1:08 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by gaybobbie at 1:08 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Spinal Tap got "every bass player in the known universe" to join them on stage at Live Earth in 2007 to play Big Bottom. The song itself is... probably offensive.
posted by hanov3r at 3:53 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by hanov3r at 3:53 PM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Beck and 157 musicians covering David Bowie’s Sound and Vision
posted by chrisulonic at 6:06 PM on August 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by chrisulonic at 6:06 PM on August 9, 2019 [2 favorites]
Best answer: This is technically a band but with 186? more piccolos than usual: Dallas Winds: Stars and Stripes Forever
posted by batter_my_heart at 7:44 AM on August 10, 2019
posted by batter_my_heart at 7:44 AM on August 10, 2019
Best answer: Playing For Change is an organization that promotes music as a tool for international/interpersonal understanding. They do videos with musicians in places around the world performing the same song, then edited together. The most recent one I saw was "Higher Ground,"but there are tons more on their website. "Higher Ground" had people in Mali, Senegal, the US, France, Japan, Italy, and other places I can't remember offhand.
posted by zorseshoes at 10:34 AM on August 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by zorseshoes at 10:34 AM on August 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: 1,000 musicians gather in a stadium to cover Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name"
posted by Rhaomi at 11:45 PM on August 18, 2019
posted by Rhaomi at 11:45 PM on August 18, 2019
Response by poster: Thanks everybody!
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 7:03 PM on September 8, 2019
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 7:03 PM on September 8, 2019
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posted by btfreek at 9:26 AM on August 9, 2019 [1 favorite]