Sing & Send

Homechoir’s unique recording project!

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The Crowdfunder for our 2024 Sing & Send recordings has been a success! Huge thank you to everyone who donated.

This year, our choristers have voted to record performances of three songs, Leave Her Johnny, Amy Beach's Peace I Leave With You, and Shoshone Love Song.  Your Crowdfunder donations will cover the cost of having these songs mixed by professional sound engineers, Conor and Kai.

Watch this space for the dates of rehearsal and recording sessions, TBA soon.

If you would like to support Homechoir in this work, please consider a donation towards our running costs:

“Sing & Send is brilliant - just so easy and fun”

Homechoir’s pioneering approach to creating whole-choir recordings is unlike any other.

The process works like this:

  1. Ben will teach everyone the piece of music in advance. If you miss this teaching session, it is saved for you on YouTube and linked below.

  2. You attend the recording session with something to watch Ben on and a separate recording device (your phone is fine).

  3. You wear headphones plugged into the device that you are watching on. This means that only your voice is picked up when you record. Wearing phones over only one ear when you sing may enable you to hear a good sound balance between your own voice and the recording session.

  4. You press record when Ben asks you to during the broadcast.

  5. You sing the piece three times along with Ben. If you can’t attend the session live, you can catch up later on with the recorded session.

  6. You stop the recording when Ben asks you to.

  7. You put the file of your recording in our Dropbox, using the voice part-specific links shown on the project’s event page below.

  8. Breathe a sigh of relief and have a nice cup of tea - you are done!

Apr
17
to 8 May

Shoshone Love Song

Our recording session is available live and later from 2pm on Wed 17 April. Bring your digital recording device and a separate screen for watching the video with attached headphones.

Meantime, if you don’t already know it or would like to brush up, learn the song by watching our revision video.

Scores for non-unison voice parts are in the Homechoir Dropbox, in the subfolder named “Homechoir Licensed Scores”. You were (or will be) emailed the link to our Dropbox when you signed up for the Homechoir newsletter; it is also in the newsletter of 12 April. Contact ana@homechoir.org if you have lost your link (but please search 🔍 for “Homechoir Dropbox” or the 12 April newsletter in your email archive first). Do not share the Dropbox link with anyone else for licensing reasons, and if a friend has lost theirs please direct them to us.

Name your recording file using the following naming convention: [First name][Last name][Voice part].[File extension] for example fredbloggstenor.mp3.

Send your file to us using the link corresponding to the voice part you recorded:

  • Soprano parts click here.

  • Alto parts click here.

  • Low voices (Tenors/Basses) click here.

  • Unison parts click here.

If you record more than one part, e.g. alto and low voice, please send them as separate files to each of the relevant folders.

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