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The complete Eric Whitacre collection
Everything in this collection starts in the same room. Three libraries, three decades of choral writing, and one constant: the Eric Whitacre Singers in The Hall at AIR Studios, conducted by the Grammy-winning composer himself. What changes across the three is how far the voice travels from the moment it was sung.
Eric Whitacre Choir records it; 170 techniques and 111 Evolutions, the voice written for like any other section of the orchestra. Eric Whitacre Contrast pushes it past the edge of choral performance, into microtonal convergences, shards and held clusters, then through a synth engine. Eric Whitacre Eternity lets go of the words altogether, granularising those same voices into drones, shimmer and collapse. An organic full moon, a hybrid half moon, a total eclipse.
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As We Breathe
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Trailer Music - Paul Thomson
- Felt Piano
- Photon Dust Pad
- Galaxy Shift (Unreleased)
- Healing Flame
- Pareidolia
- Cresting
- Hold One Note
- Ruined Piano
- Rising Sun Wave (Very Long)
- Lestrata
- Ebullience
- Pulsar
- Quaver (Unreleased)
- Mm Wave (Short)
- Ooh
- Nz
- Erupting Hum
- Ah Wave
- Ooh
As We Breathe - Homay Schmitz
Row or Fudge - Clark
Eric Whitacre Choir: Composing for Choir
Eric Whitacre Contrast: Walkthrough
Eric Whitacre Eternity
The electronic total eclipse. Where Choir and Contrast record the voice, Eric Whitacre Eternity dissolves it. Made together with Eric’s album Eternity in an Hour and recorded by Spitfire’s Head of Recording Harry Wilson across AIR Lyndhurst Hall, Evergreen Studios in Los Angeles, and Studio Helsinki in Antwerp, this is a modular rig rather than an ensemble: a Soma Lyra-8 at its heart, alongside a Sidrax Organ, a Minimoog Model D, an Oberheim OB-X8 and a Hydrasynth. With them sits his grandmother’s upright Ludwig & Co, in the Whitacre family since 1903 and still on its original felt, and choir recordings granularised and folded back on themselves until the syllables blur into air. Over 200 presets, built with six artists from the album’s second disc. A palette for the space around orchestral writing.
Eric Whitacre Choir
The Encyclopaedia of the Voice. Conducted by Eric himself over weeks in The Hall at AIR Studios and captured by engineer Jake Jackson. Featuring 22 singers – six soprano, five alto, five tenor, six bass – its 170 techniques run from familiar vowels and open vocalisations, whose harmonic content transforms with the shape of a mouth, through to shorts and rhythmic passages. Alongside them sit 111 Evolutions in the Evo Grid: samples that change over time, arranged across the keyboard, so a single chord weaves a micro-composition that never stands still. The voice, written for like any other section of the orchestra.
Eric Whitacre Contrast
Breathtaking new extremes. Where Choir gives you the voice as an orchestral section, Contrast takes it past the edge of choral performance. 245 experimental techniques – fragments, shards, divergences, murmuring, prisms – were performed by 19 singers at AIR Studios across 11 signals, each presented in two tones: Light from an open vowel shape, Dark from a closed one, a seemingly subtle change that rewrites the timbre entirely. Scale Mode conforms the intervallic techniques to any diatonic mode, or one you build yourself. Then the eDNA synth engine carries the whole thing into the electronic realm, with 24 warps, 92 presets and bespoke sets from Ryan Lott, Clark and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. A living, breathing machine of sonic metamorphosis.
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