Songs for Saturday: WorlDream

At first I had no idea what today's s4s would be about. Then Steve Macdonald released The WorlDream Project : worldream.filk.de. Problem solved.

Back in 2001, Steve decided to attend every filk convention (plus Worldcon), gather together as many filkers as possible at each one, and record them singing one song: "Many Hearts, One Voice".

This awesome video and BandCamp album were the result.

My suggestion for the optimum listening experience is to pull up the BandCamp page for the song, which has the lyrics annotated with where each section was sung. Listen to it there. Then, bring up another window so you can watch the video on YouTube. Then go to The WorlDream Project website : worldream.filk.de to get the whole story, including the list of participants (and which cons they were recorded at).

Each convention also recommended two or three songs to go with the project; "The World Inside the Crystal" [s4s page here] was one of the three chosen by Consonance.

In case you're curious, I was in the chorus at Conflikt, Consonance, and OVFF. It was my first time at OVFF; I had decided to take advantage of the cheap flights following 9/11.