Songs for an invisible choir

Post date: 2021-05-11 13:03:15

For an event, I'm going to build a whisper dish and have a distant choir be strangely audible at a single spot. Help me choose a song for the choir to sing.

I'm going to be part of an outdoor jubilee/art event — think of a rural Burning Man, with Li'l Abner overtones. I'm making a whisper disc, which is a setup with two giant parabolic reflectors so someone's very quiet voice from far away can be clearly audible at the focal point of the reflector. See here for an example.

The name of this little attraction is The Choir Invisible. You stand on the spot and, from nowhere, hear people singing (the other disc will be faraway and camouflaged).

Okay, that out of the way, I'm curious about folk/gospel/hokum/etc. songs about The Great Beyond, or being far away, or anything else that an invisible choir would be singing about. I'm wide open to suggestions. Puns are welcome.

Because of the format and theme of the event, it must be roughly old-timey music, so please no pop/contemporary songs no matter how juicily apt they may be. Thanks.

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