Thank You Spirit

To My Friends and Fellow Students of the Urantia Book

Thank You Spirit

Music and words by Jerry Gerber

Thank you Spirit

for the life you've given us
and thank you for the blessings

of friendship and love.

May your Will be done. And may your light be found

on worlds now and to come.

Thank you Heavenly Father of our Souls,

who granted personhood upon us

May Light and Life one day reign on Earth.

Technical Information:

This piece was composed and sequenced into a computer (A DAW, or digital audio workstation)

and the choir is from a "sample library", which is essentially many thousands of recordings

of professional singers singing various syllables, vowels, consonances, siblances and plosives.

The composer chooses which samples will sing which words by typing text into a "word builder", which uses its own

programming language to arrive at a reasonably close approximation of how human singers

would pronounce the words. As you probably are aware, when a live choir is singing in a reverberant hall or church,

it's often difficult to understand the text unless program notes with the printed words are available.

In some ways, this recording is not much different, which is why I included the words above.