Jacob Collier's Audience Choir Experiment

Jacob Collier discusses his work directing audience choirs, sampling their voices and using them in his latest album "Djesse Vol.4"
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[@joaopldomingues]

"When it comes to music, most people just need permission, they don't actually need skill [...] to start being involved." is a fantastically good take 1:47

[@futuresmiles5797]

this was a big takeaway for me as well 🤯

[@TLMuse]

As soon as he said it, I backed it up to type it into a file of favorite music quotes. With a bit more context: "Everyone always knows more than they think they know about music. Anyone who has ever heard music has an inner structure, a skeletal understanding of how harmony works, whether or not they think of themselves as that.... When it comes to music, most people just need permission. They don't actually need skill; they need permission to start being involved." -Tom

[@Erin-000]

🥹

[@user-lm3fc5kh4r]

somebody needs to fund this project for jacob: fill a football stadium with vocalists, put jacob in the middle, partition the audience into well defined sections, give jacob some efficient means of signalling to each group what he would like them to sing, let him conduct the most gargantuan sounding and beautiful thing we've ever heard. i don't care how he hears about this idea, i just need it to happen - get this idea to jacob somehow.

[@johnf991]

It's been done in Cardiff, albeit without Jacob, using the rugby stadium and a massed male voice choir of tens of thousands singing Welsh hymns. A wonderful sound of humanity.

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

Watch the video of the Glastonbury Audience Choir; they kinda knew about it(and were expecting it, and were ready to have a go at it...the moment the crowd rises to the octave - in unison) is glorious and quite satisfying; and quite highly recommended.

[@royemiliani-musicandart1042]

Damn, that’s a great idea

[@MyHouseOnTheMoon]

Bring in his audience last month was magical

[@cerfontainechristian]

Who else would share so much of his own honest discovery process, thank you Jacob. And yes, in the early days (Brussels Feb 2019) you made us sing different melodies dividing the audience in 3 parts, we laught a lot, but boy what an amazingly harmonic end result!!! And we had no idea where you were taking us... long live audience choir!

[@paultucci2628]

respect all around; love hearing this guy talk about music/humanity

[@mtoshamtosha]

"it's a big job to go through and categorise all those sounds" but if anyone can, Jacob can!

[@LizNess]

Beautiful and love the idea of “unearthing the reality.” His passion and enthusiasm is always so infectious and inspiring.❤

[@tabor503]

Jacob back up your laptop!!!

[@juliusway]

Thanks for this ❤

[@MilaKamiliaH]

love seeing jethro in every interviews

[@stephenprescott4441]

Thank you so much for creating this. I have been using it now for 24 hours, and I am still having trouble creating the user preset in the tone morphing section. It seems to only record for a certain time, and I am finding it hard to sync to my Cubase melody that I've written with it. I've tried prerecording a melody then using the new app, recording a user setting in the morphing section. I have also tried recording a melody whilst changing the aa ee oo sounds live. Any thoughts or am I overestimating this section of the programs capabilities. Thanks again

[@Sarsour_]

Very inightful!

[@SteelOnVR]

❤

[@SilliestBillyz]

does john kennedy's middle name start with an f

[@MbakiMpuchane]

I think so

[@dylanbaer]

this bro is trying so hard to prove he's good at music it ends up bad make that shit simple so everyone can enjoy stop hate keeping sounds

[@MyHouseOnTheMoon]

What you are is WRONG. As someone who is had worked as a professional musician and studied music in college, he is an absolute music theory genius. He also is doing the opposite of "gate keeping" music, and this whole conversation is all about how everyone should be able to participate. I don't understand what you're talking about.... maybe it is the lack of punctuation and grammar errors getting in the way of your point, so if I misunderstood your meaning, I apologize. But really, being in his audience was magical, and even my wife, who has never learned a single note of music, found a great deal of love for music on that night because of the choir experience!

[@dylanbaer]

@@MyHouseOnTheMoon okay mr student loans all he does is over complicate formulas that have existed since the dawn of music he is making music that's satisfies the "music intellectual" not the masses which i think most people that are musicians are trying to spread a message more than create blissful tunes which are dumb imo in that case creating music that doesn't have artsy fartsy pretentious "I'm the new motzfart" artist behind it sells better and generally ends up better

[@user-th6rh8zp3t]

he's so insufferable

[@pile_of_kyle]

???

[@pile_of_kyle]

If you have never been around people who are just out-of-this-world brilliant, you might, understandably, feel that they are insufferable. I am not a particularly brilliant person myself, but I know a handful of people who are; they tend to speak with such highly technical vocabulary that it can become frustrating to talk to them, but in reality they are thinking on a whole different level than you and I. I am certain that if you were able to speak to someone like Socrates or Plato in person, they would seem insufferable, but in hindsight you would recognize that they were more brilliant than you could have imagined.

[@Samuel-sg2iv]

Its ok to be jealous buddy, but you don't have to type it out.

[@user-th6rh8zp3t]

@@Samuel-sg2iv funniest thing about saying anything negative toward jacob is watching the meatriders assemble

[@BoomboxFiame]

@@user-th6rh8zp3tall he does is put out positivity and treat others well, if you don’t like him you’re just a sad jealous asshat fr fr you hate the fact that smarter more talented people than you exist lmaoo get out your feelings mr insecure haha