Bird Music

[Confused]

Some very important news:

 

https://www.nme.com/music-interviews/ed-o-brien-solo-album-radiohead-nature-sing-interview-2019-2477408

 

[sphinxsix]

59 minutes ago, Confused said:

Some very important news:

 

https://www.nme.com/music-interviews/ed-o-brien-solo-album-radiohead-nature-sing-interview-2019-2477408

 

 

Thanks, this IS very important news:

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Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien really, really likes birds

Ed's trying to get birdsong into the charts.

NME caught up with Radiohead‘s Ed O’Brien, during his appearance at the launch of the RSPB’s new project ‘Let Nature Sing’, which aims to get birdsong into the UK charts and raise awareness of the sharp decline in Britain’s bird life – which has seen numbers drop by 40 million in the last 40 years.

 

And a very cool video.

 

According to a recent report from the conservation group BirdLife International 40 percent of the world’s 11,000 bird species are in decline.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/forty-percent-of-the-worlds-bird-populations-are-in-decline-new-study-finds

 

In short..

Let's make the bird population great again!

[sphinxsix]

Back to music.

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Timothy Judd on Mahler and the bird which has its own idea of parenting:

 

Mahler and the Cuckoo

 

I'm not sure you will hear all the cuckoo inspired motives in music in exactly the same way after watching these two videos (in particular the second one after 2:10..).

 

 

 

[Confused]

 

[rando]

Can't ably put into words how shocked I am to be posting this in here.  Eyes being pecked out for an hour plus would be sunny in comparison to my expected disgust of this album.  

 

Birds softly erupt as the celebration dies down towards the end of this closing piece.

 

 

[christopher3393]

 Latvian Radio Choir: Pēteris Vasks "Zīles ziņa" (The Tomtit's Message)

 

 

[sphinxsix]

 

That's what it's about. Snowball.

 

 

Snowball clearly not only moonwalks but also headbangs (!) to M.Jackson music. I can only speculate what does it do when heavy metal is on if Jaco tune is enough to provoke the bird's headbanging.. 

 

 

[Ralf11]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/dancing-cockatoo-named-snowball-learned-14-dance-moves-trnd/index.html

 

Snowball can invent his own dance moves

 

it would be fun, and likely instructive, to hook up a bunch of parrots with audio & video links on the internet - let them communicate with each other ("peck to talk?) and monitor

 

 

[Ralf11]

https://www.livescience.com/65891-parrot-dances-spontaneously.html

[Confused]

37 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

 

That's what it's about. Snowball.

 

 

Snowball clearly not only moonwalks but also headbangs (!) to M.Jackson music. I can only speculate what does it do when heavy metal is on if Jaco tune is enough to provoke the bird's headbanging.. 

 

 

Is there a bird website with a “Human music” thread?

[Ralf11]

not yet - but they do sometimes mimic the acoustic emanations of the hairless monkeys

[Confused]

25 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

not yet - but they do sometimes mimic the acoustic emanations of the hairless monkeys

Eh?  I have lots of hair, although my recent attempt at growing feathers did not go well.

[Ralf11]

to grow feathers you need to start with scales

[sphinxsix]

I wish all AS was like those recent posts 

[Confused]

21 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

to grow feathers you need to start with scales

That bit was easy, the feathers not.☹️

[Confused]

Anyway, back on topic.  Is this bird music?

 

 

[mansr]

Not exactly music, but bird and rhyming:

 

[sphinxsix]

On 7/10/2019 at 10:23 PM, Confused said:

Anyway, back on topic.  Is this bird music?

 

 

 

This is a very fine example of bird music!

 

On 7/11/2019 at 12:38 AM, mansr said:

Not exactly music, but bird and rhyming:

 

 

If rhyming wasn't music hip hop as a music genre wouldn't exist (I can't even imagine what the world would be like if 'The Simpsons didn't exist )..

Since it is so let me post my favorite Tim Burton's 5 min. short featuring an excerpt from the same poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy!

 

 

[Confused]

Alien bird music:

 

 

[sphinxsix]

7 minutes ago, Confused said:

Alien bird music:

+1 Subgenre not mentioned here yet! 

I regret Mike Patton doesn't sing in this piece as his vocal range IMO exceed's some birds birdsong range. Some examples in the second video.

 

 

 

[sphinxsix]

As Cage described this work: “Twelve tapes to be distributed by a single performer in a space in which people are free to move and birds to fly.” The duration, arrangement, and modulation of the tapes comprising this work were ascertained by means of I-Ching chance operations. Included in the score are instructions for four, six, and eight channels. At the very end is also a reproduction of Cage’s National Audubon Society membership card, with an expiration date of 2/73.

 

 

 

https://www.audubon.org/

[rando]

Central work from my latest album of the evening with video found here.

 

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Stefano lived in a “splendid house surrounded by greenery”. He spent his days in the courtyard accompanied by hope, parrots and opossums. At breakfast, your guest usually touched Bach. Then in the morning I would study and compose anything. In the afternoon they jointly reviewed certain technical aspects of the piece. "At dusk," Daniele continues, "we began to listen carefully to the surroundings around us, to transcribe the singing of tropical birds, to modulate the spectral sounds of insects." All of this, of course, insoles the score of “Ottetto” (for eight double basses; central work on this CD), covered with the fingerprints of millipedes and centipedes, beetles and scorpions, parasites that slide down its surface, which go through and glue the pages with scales. transcribing the song of tropical birds, modulating the spectral sounds of insects. ” All of this, of course, insoles the score of “Ottetto” (for eight double basses; central work on this CD), covered with the fingerprints of millipedes and centipedes, beetles and scorpions, parasites that slide down its surface, which go through and glue the pages with scales. transcribing the song of tropical birds, modulating the spectral sounds of insects.

 

 

[89reksal]

Jeff Beck & Imelda May: "Mockin' Bird Hill"

 

[christopher3393]

 

Well, yes, Imelda May does a fine job with the old Patti Page vocal arrangement, and Jeff Beck has his own variation on the patented Les Paul riff, but nobody, I mean NOBODY, does it like Slim.