if you are a chorister the joy of melodic chords ringing in your ears when you sing in parts is probably what you are being denied now the current lockdown because of the pandemic has meant no practices and no concerts all concerts planned for this period and there were a good many stand cancelled but like the show music too must go on and it does virtually as live choirs make way for virtual choirs vc choirmusic lovers have responded to this temporary transition with enthusiasm for once the conducting role was taken over from me by the technical experts in the choir they came up with the idea of vc performance says faith ragland of the coimbatore chamber chorale cccwhile live choir performances will always be the real deal virtual choir performances too are getting a following soon after we released the video we got calls from people who were curious to know how we did it now several smaller groups too have tried it out says faith about cccs video which was out on april 5leroy c jerson a music producer in chennai says i was longing to listen to a song that we sing in church to get some sense of normalcy and thats when this idea came about i reached out to my friends from different countries and cities though it was a daunting task to pitchcorrect edit mix and master 19 voices the end result was exciting now it inspires me to do more songs this way by connecting with old friends living in different cities the choir of jerusalem mar thoma church in anna nagar chennai is another group that came out with a virtual performance a few days agoin the last two weeks there have also been virtual performance videos by choirs from bangalore nagaland and kerala that are being shared on online platformsdr maya mascarenhas director of the bangalore chorus says i happened to watch a virtual performance of an australian group called the pub choir and i shared the idea with the kids in the choir and they were excited i played the track recorded different parts and sent them to the kids in about 48 hours they recorded their respective parts from their homes and sent them back to me even their parents sent their videos my husband whos an audio engineer put together the audio and one of the parents helped with editing the video in about four days the whole thing was ready this was a medley of peace in our hearts and hum honge kamyab now we are planning to do another virtual performance soondid you know one of the pioneers of vc is eric whitacre an american composer and conductor his first vc in 2010 had 185 singers from 12 countries in which they performed his composition called lux aurumque his fifth vc is featured in the film deep field the impossible magnitude of our universe the soundtrack of the film features 8000