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The Friday Fillip

By Simon Fodden

I often think that the only truly harmless thing that human beings do together is the making of music. If I include dancing as well, then I’ve embraced the two videos I offer you today, each of which shows how much pleasure we can get and give in groups, and will, I hope, delight you.

The first relies on surprise and incongruity: you’re at a big city train terminal, hustling on in your daily commute when:

The expressions on the faces of the onlookers are something wonderful to see.

The second is surprising because it makes use of technology to “congregate” 182 singers into a truly harmonious choir, singers who have never met each other or, indeed, the conductor/composer:

If you’d like an explanation of how this was accomplished, take a look at this video as well.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).