2,052-voice YouTube choir performs Eric Whitacre's "Sleep"

"The 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of 'Sleep' from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011. http://virtualchoir.org"

Don't miss this, even if you just watch a little of it. I haven't been this moved by a YouTube video--or global art project that 2.0 video curation and publishing made possible--since Where the Hell is Matt?

"You took my joy. I want it back."

Damn, am I glad to have found this song today. It was released in 1998, and there are many times over the past 13 years when it would've been great to have known of it, but I'm still glad to find it now. I'm lucky enough to have never had a person in my life to sing it to, but it's nice to belt out to gloomy weather and clinical depression, and I can imagine folks addressing it to a toxic job or situation or gender norm. It also lends itself easily to all kinds of adaptation--protest call & response (you took our rights; we want them back). I want to teach it to the girls when I get home, so they'll have it as they go through puberty, relationships, life.

Lucinda Williams, "Joy":