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15 Miles West is the all-male a cappella group of Western Oregon University. We started in the fall of 2008.

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It took us 4 or 5 years to actually consider making the group actually start.

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A capella is completely voice. All voices, all the instrumental parts are completely voiced. The percussion, the beatboxing is all vocal.

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It's like taking your favorite song on the radio and making it a completely different arrangement.

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To put a group like this together, a lot of it's repetition really. Staying driven with all the same idea.

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I think once we all realized that we just enjoy making music, that's the key part, just enjoy making music together.

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A cappella fascinates me because you get a chance to prove that you're not just a singer or a vocalist.

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You get to show that you're more of an instrumentalist. A cappella to me, it's pretty simple. It's just a symphony of voices.

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Alright, so for tonight, guys, we're going to start with 'Virtual Insanity,' and we're going to run through just the choreography of the song.

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Second one we're going to do is 'Just the Way You Are', work on our blend at the beginning of the song. Be exact.

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The road to the ICCA quarterfinals, for us is I-5 South.

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We had to send in a qualifying live performance of ourselves.

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Fortunately, they recognized our submission.

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Saturday we're going to be competing against 8 other groups, vocal groups. It could be all-male, mixed groups, and all-female groups.

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I don't know if we're going to be taking it all this year, but I would see us in the upper top 3 or 4.

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It's something that I've always done since I was a kid. Since I was 5, I've always been singing music.