My drone seemingly attracted birds!

Fruitbat1919

We have a bird feeder in the garden and it regularly gets a few birds coming for food. Today while playing Minilogue XD and iPad sounds combined and through various fx, I stumbled upon a drone sound that seemed to get the birds really active and some even tried to come in the open window. Instead of the usual few birds, there was about 30. When I stopped playing the majority went away!

Obviously this all could have been coincidence, but I've never seen this many birds here in the six years we've lived here.

Have you ever experienced wildlife seemingly responding to your sounds, beyond the two legged variety in drunken states while you play live in a pub?

Gavinski

Wow, that sounds absolutely wild, haha. No photos or video? Would have made a great Insta post by the sound of it 😂

Fruitbat1919

@Gavinski said:
Wow, that sounds absolutely wild, haha. No photos or video? Would have made a great Insta post by the sound of it 😂

Yeah would have loved my wife to have been here to have been able to video it happening or at least witness it. As it is, it's just like my angling tales lol.

robosardine

Can you do it again? Or is it gone forever? If you can do it again you could post up an audio clip and we could all try it 😀………I’ve just noticed my cat reading this over my shoulder.

Alfred

In spring when the birds are looking for mates to build a nest with I like to play with them. Inventing new mating calls.
Birds in the forrest are getting more creative with their tunes too. Inspired by the ringtones of human hikers.
It is also great to watch cows comming over to listen to a musician in the field.

Fruitbat1919

@robosardine said:
Can you do it again? Or is it gone forever? If you can do it again you could post up an audio clip and we could all try it 😀………I’ve just noticed my cat reading this over my shoulder.

Gone I’m afraid. I use my Minilogue XD by just twiddling with it until it makes some sound I like - I rarely save the sounds these days. It goes through the fx on a circuit rhythm, which I just switch on or off as I play. I mix the sound of this and the iPad sound (played by the Minilogue keyboard) through my SP404mk2 and through its fx, which I switch in and out and mess with. It’s not really a repeatable exercise except the starting point.

I find the whole process quite therapeutic, as I’m never sure where it’s going to go. In the future I’m going to add another Minilogue and iPad to have more playing keys and iPad playing surface and eventually add a little mixer that has the ability to just record the total output.

Fruitbat1919

@Alfred said:
In spring when the birds are looking for mates to build a nest with I like to play with them. Inventing new mating calls.
Birds in the forrest are getting more creative with their tunes too. Inspired by the ringtones of human hikers.
It is also great to watch cows comming over to listen to a musician in the field.

Wonderful. Thanks for posting.

Alfred

Alfred

Fruitbat1919

@Alfred said:

Had me in stitches

Fruitbat1919

@Alfred said:

Like the music critic at the end!

Dav

@Alfred said:

Lol. I needed a good laugh. Thanks.

@Fruitbat1919, if you could find the sound again it would be really interesting to hear what they liked. The effect of music on animals fascinate me. When I was growing up I use to go practice trumpet in the woods, and one year a mocking bird sat on a tree limb close by and listened to me play. After that day for a long while whenever I’d go in the woods to play that bird would show up and stay to listen. Never failed. It would just stay there and study me. Did that for months, then one day never showed up again. I still think about that bird all these years later.

Alfred

In my experience the birds like flute like sounds, playing with filter cutoff at high resonance and a fast lfo on the oscilator frequecy.

GovernorSilver

wim

I went to a music camp in the summer a few times when I was a kid. In the evenings we used to have recitals in the dining area where anyone who wanted to could play a (mostly classical) piece. There was a huge stone fireplace behind the performance area. During particularly good performances anywhere from 2-6 mice used to emerge from the cracks somewhere and sit attentively listening on the hearth.

My cat reacts to whistling and harmonica playing. He starts meowing along while rubbing up against my leg and the furniture. I can't really tell if he likes it, or if this is his way of asking me to please stop.

wim

Fruitbat1919

@Alfred said:
In my experience the birds like flute like sounds, playing with filter cutoff at high resonance and a fast lfo on the oscilator frequecy.

I should have at least taken a snap of the current settings of the synth, even if I couldn’t with the fx settings due to how the Circuit Rhythm works.

Fruitbat1919

@GovernorSilver said:

Very heart warming.

Fruitbat1919

@wim said:
I went to a music camp in the summer a few times when I was a kid. In the evenings we used to have recitals in the dining area where anyone who wanted to could play a (mostly classical) piece. There was a huge stone fireplace behind the performance area. During particularly good performances anywhere from 2-6 mice used to emerge from the cracks somewhere and sit attentively listening on the hearth.

My cat reacts to whistling and harmonica playing. He starts meowing along while rubbing up against my leg and the furniture. I can't really tell if he likes it, or if this is his way of asking me to please stop.

Made me think of the mouse organ…..think that was Bagpuss if I remember correctly

@wim said:

You have layers Wim

pedro

Strange… my drones usually repel birds, and humans alike for that matter

Fruitbat1919

@pedro said:
Strange… my drones usually repel birds, and humans alike for that matter

Yeah my ‘music’ often has drives people away. I must have just hit the right frequencies. Tried again today and not a bird in site around the feeder while I was playing, so probably I do scare them the majority of time lol