#59

This just published today about residents of a rural valley in Turkey using whistles in kuş dili, or “bird language,” to communicate over long distances…

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#60

Yes, just been listening to Indiamore all afternoon, but the Big Sun album got me started with Chassol. Brilliant

#61

this is fantastic, i wanna play bird simulator

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#62
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#63

Paul Panhuysen did a lot of work with or related to birds, mainly around his bird band The KGB (Kanarie Grand Band)

There is a bit more information on it in the book The Game And The Rules, which is a great book for many reasons.

also Evan Parker- https://www.discogs.com/Evan-Parker-Evan-Parker-With-Birds-For-Steve-Lacy/release/12094318

And a bit of documentation of a piece I did last year using synthesized “birds”

#64

there was a piece in the wire about this:

https://www.nightingalesinberlin.com/film

related book

#65

This is excellent!

I’m loving this thread. We have informal birdwatching gatherings every few weeks here in Maine. I’ve also kept parakeets and cockatiels. In my experience if anyone is considering teaching a bird music or speech, it’s easier with a single bird vs. a pair or more.

Is it possible someone here made the video using a Verbos Harmonic Oscillator to create bird sounds? I saw it sometime last year, but can’t find it anywhere online.

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#66

This is a piece I recorded several years ago, using field recordings of birds and sine and wavetable voices from my modular to create ‘artificial’ birds. I based it all on Paul Klee’s painting, and what that might sound like.

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#67

I’ve always loved that picture, too, and have wondered what it would sound like if the crank were turned!

Nice piece, thanks for sharing it.

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#68

One of my favourites

#69

Thanks for listening, I’m glad you liked it :slight_smile:

#70

I stumbled upon this video about and of that Coates piece, Dawn Chorus, elsewhere on the internet and immediately thought of this topic.

I really like it! I imagine the installed version would be really enjoyable to wander through and soak up.

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#71

I really like this piece for bass clarinet and recordings of jackdaw.

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#72

OMG, what a beautifully constructed piece. I would love to have been able to see installed at Fabrica.

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#73

A timely resuscitation!

This was mentioned last night in the book I’m reading:

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#74

I discovered that on a cd of Danish experimental music a few years back. Absolutely lovely piece.

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#75

I’ve been in an ensemble performing some of these. One of the birds was common near where I grew up. The feeling of hearing it performed, the musicians distributed throughout the audience, was so exactly like the experience of hearing them in the wild that I got goosebumps.

Also, musician David Rothenberg works with bird songs slowed down to a rate which is more comprehensible to people, an interesting approach.

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#76

My wife is working on a series of thirty warbler paintings to celebrate her upcoming 30th birthday, and I’ve been talking with her about possibly making a series of recordings to accompany the paintings, wherein I attempt to recreate the warblers’ songs with my modular rig, or perhaps take their songs into some new unnatural territory. I’ll be sure to post that share those recordings here if and when they happen.

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#77

I was reading about Stephen Beck, an early video synth pioneer, and found out he worked on the Cornell Birdsong Book, which I owned…but donated during a big book-clear out (and now it’s $70 on Amazon? sheesh.)

Weird connections.

#78

I tried to simulate bird sounds and forest soundscape with Music Easel.

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