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Birds
I've been listening to birds for as long as I can remember. I don't know about where you are but here on Australia's east coast we are spoiled for amazing sounds.
In the past I have accidentally stumbled upon some reasonably close approximations in my iOS audio forays (I'm generally more interested in synths). An echoey kookaburra flew out of Sector a few weeks ago!
It has struck me that actively trying to render a particular bird-call either via synth or audio app (hello Borderlands/Samplr) might be an interesting way of developing my iOS chops.
I'm reminded of an ancient interview with Al Dimeola (a childhood hero of mine) where he spoke of trying to emulate Doc Watson's playing style as a kid. Dimeola used a pick, unaware at the time that Watson was a finger-picking genius. Trying to do the impossible helped Dimeola develop a not-too-shabby technique.
Some of my favourite sounds:
- magpie (that's Australian magpie, not some northern hemisphere try-hard)
- butcher-bird (the pied butcher-bird is considered by some (me!) as the best singer of the lot)
- currawong (wide variety of calls)
-eastern rosellas (bells tinkling in 4ths and 5ths)
I'm going to be generous and include two imports (bloody poms!).
- blackbird (either when singing happily or when singing frantically when trying to get laid)
- starling (don't listen to them too intently lest you start to believe that they are a fifth-column sent by aliens to take over planet Earth).
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PPG Wavegenerator app has the preset H1N1, not really what you are into, but I find it extremely funny.
That synth is on my to-get list.
The Butcher Bird. If Mister Cave hasn't got a song called that already he needs one...
@markk
Good post... If you are interested in birds as musical inspiration, you may be interested in 20th century composer Olivier Messiaen. The link below has a very nice introduction to Messiaens work with bird song for the orchestra. The man was a genius IMHO.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/arts/music/at-mostly-mozart-a-menagerie-of-bird-related-works.html
What a post. For honest like: best thing I read on the Internet all day.
I wish I wasn't on my phone because I can never remember how to spell J-Lilla's username and I'm too lazy to go looking for it, Western Hemisphere try-hard that I am, but I really want him to see
Because, awesome.
Ta, SC.
If you like sound, type "top 40 bird songs" into google and follow the link that takes you to the Australian site called Bird in Backyards. You can hear what I'm talking about and more. Downloadable mp3's.
Yeah, I'm a fan. Thanks for the link.
Maybe a bit off the mark but a delightful thing nonetheless...
....& a couple other avian oddities that sprung to mind.... 'Symphony of the Birds' by Jim Fassett & Oskar Sala's Trautonium sounds used for Alfred's 'The Birds'...
I think many of my first Moog patches were fairly realistic bird patches. I would make 4 track nature recreations in my teens with the bird and wind patches.
@Paul16
Thank you for sharing those! That Jim Fasset work is amazing....
@Paul The Fasset piece is thought-provoking. Although Fasset is working with the original raw material, Messiaen sounds more compelling despite being a simulacrum played on traditional instruments (theremins notwithstanding).
And as for the whistling stuff... I just decided that whistling is a little like the whole iOS music experience: it's often more fun to do than listen to.
Lot of things fall into that category Mister @markk
Not much of a bird botherer, but I think Messiaen's a big man on the wordly musical campus...
Brilliant! In the past I have tried to do something similar, but only with images and words. I am resolved now to save any accidental bird calls that I produce on iPad.
@moderndaycompiler - welcome
@markk - hahaha, yes but a bit of a dying art I think....I can't whistle as well as my dad, he didn't whistle as well as my grandfather, etc.
Those interested in animal / nature sound manipulation might find Basil Kirchin's work to be of interest. Early use of Nagra tape machines to manipulate recordings, ending up with Evan Parker jamming with some birds. His 'worlds within worlds' & 'quantum' recordings both feature the concept.
Fortunately Basil's fascinating work & story were snatched from obscurity by the stirling chap at Trunk records :
http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/kirchin_history.shtml
He could also write a mean tune....!
I've programmed a few Animoog patches emulating bird sounds. Didn't put them online yet.
Never heard of Kirchin, thanks for the info @Paul16.
When we have our Annual Convention you twitchers are going to have to take out your own booth
its just filtered noise, a resonating filter, panning and a little reverb (and a lot of knob twisting)
but I think its pretty convincing
@lala awesome, what synth did you use?
@greg
nothing special, some AU
i would tell you, but i don't remember, made it a year ago
getting the basic sounds is easy, but to make it flow was the hard part
I think I tweaked and edited it for 5 days
im a obsessed sound maniac, lol
what I do remember is the birds outside went crazy - I had my window open - was very funny
every time i turned the sound louder to hear what i was doing the birds outside got louder and more frantic too, to lure this strange bird to come outside
so there was a kind of communication between the machines and the real birds, was good fun
It's the end of the world.
Here yar.
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/birds/featured/Top-40-Bird-Songs