This was a fun one – it’s a virtual choir of alumni from my old church youth choir singing the Lindley arrangement of Now the Green Blade Riseth. I was asked to help out on tech for this project, so in addition to singing and playing trombone on it, I also mixed the audio and created the video.
The trombone part is interesting. I wanted to add some brass, but given the timeframe, I was the only person who could do it. The accompaniment is in 4 parts with some quite high notes (up in the trumpet range), so I played all four parts down in the trombone range, then when I mixed them, I went in and shifted those parts up an octave (or two). It’s not a perfect solution, but I think it turned out pretty nice. The video part was also interesting to work on – I hadn’t done anything like that before, so after trying (and failing) to get it working in Blender, I did some searching and found VSCD, which worked a treat.
Ben, this is wonderful! So fun to see the choristers all grown up.
I was wondering how these virtual choirs come together – beautiful!