Playing For Change

Ran across this on InfoTech4Lrng:



And eventually found this:

Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Johnson, the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music: PLAYING FOR CHANGE: PEACE THROUGH MUSIC. The film brings together musicians from around the world � blues singers in a waterlogged New Orleans, chamber groups in Moscow, a South African choir � to collaborate on songs familiar and new, in the effort to foster a new, greater understanding of our commonality.

Here�s the trailer:



And here�s One Love:



Now, in this case they actually traveled around and visited the musicians in each of their countries, but I wonder how difficult this would be to pull off virtually? I imagine the quality would suffer some, and the transitions between different musicians in different locales would most likely not be as seamless, but I think it�s doable. You could either file transfer the raw video and have one person put it together, or my guess is that there are online sites that enable this fairly easily (haven�t used them, but perhaps Jumpcut or Kaltura).

Why couldn�t we have students around the globe put together a music video like this, �in the effort to foster a new, greater understanding of our commonality�?