Set II

Circlesongsthe room is the band

He sings you a part. You sing it back. He gives the next row another part, then another, until the hall is a multi-part, multi-groove chorus and he is soloing over the top of it.⁷

The Los Angeles Times said he “turns a concert hall into a playground.”⁷

Playing the room
60,000 voices
Full circlesongs

Playing the room

5 videos · 13 min

Track 1 is the famous one. New York, June 12, 2009: he jumps from spot to spot, the audience sings the note for each spot, and then he jumps somewhere he hasn’t taught them. They sing it anyway. “Regardless of where I am, anywhere,” he said afterward, “every audience gets that.”^16,17

The power of the pentatonic scaleWorld Science Festival, 2009 · 3:04

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60,000 voices

Day of Song, 2010 · 2 videos · 10 min

An arena in the Ruhr, a choral festival, and one man inventing parts for 60,000 singers on the spot.¹⁸

Improvising with 60,000 singers!Sing – Day of Song, Veltins Arena, June 5, 2010 · 7:04

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Full circlesongs

2 videos · 58 min

With the Kuumba Singers in Leipzig, 2002, and a 53-minute session in Budapest, 2018, with Joey Blake, Dave Worm and Acappella Jazzation. He named the 1997 album after the form: Circlesongs, with Voicestra.^8,7

Circle Song, with the Kuumba SingersSpirits of Music, Leipzig, 2002 · 5:37

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The whole idea fits on one DVD. Try This at Home is the one that hooked me.

Set III: Duets →