SOCA Choir Pieces

For those of you who saw my last Sunday Gratitude post, this is kind of a repeat, but I just wanted to repost the three recordings from our choir at the Serbian Orthodox Choral Association’s festival this past Saturday.

(start at 0:55 for the first one)

These audio files were pulled from video my 8-year-old and 11-year-old took. On one hand, it’s weird because being in the choir, I felt that the voices sounded warmer, and I don’t know that these recordings are great picking up some of the chord sliding because some of it is fairly subtle. On the other hand, I think these sound a lot like some professional recordings from the 1940s, which probably also just put a group of people in a room with one microphone to record. That a professional setup like that could sound similar to outdated technology recorded by children really blows my mind. If you all could see the video – which bounces around enough to make a person seasick – it’s even more impressive how good so much of modern technology is! (I think it was recorded on an iPhone 10.)