Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Birds

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo,

who writes:

Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).

PS: thanks to Kelli for posting this...I'm passing it on from her blog.

6 comments:

apprentice said...

How lovely is that?

Pam said...

I know. Makes me wonder, for instance, what sounds might a line of fallen tomatoes make if you were to mark their spots on the ground then translate to music?

Dorothee said...

Dear Pamela ~

i read your note in qarrtsiluni about my "lung ta" piece - and then followed the link, and arrived at your blog. such a beautiful place. i especially was amazed by the "mesa" pieces -- thing is, i am also the editor of blueprintreview, and your mesa lines would connect with some recent posts in the blueprintreview blog - here the link to it: "just a moment" - http://just1m.blogspot.com/

i would like to include your mesa post (or a variation of it) in the blog. if you like the idea, then contact me via: editor@blueprintreview.de

then we can figure out the details.

i hope this works out

cheers,
dorothee

Pam said...

Dorothee, I emailed you as per below...thanks! Would love to participate.

Unknown said...

Gorgeous.

Pam said...

Hi Annie,
yes it's very cool. I'd love to be able to string words randomly out on lines like this and have someone set those notes to music.