Listen. Listen.
The composer says: “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 was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.”
What music is around you right now, that you are missing?
(many thanks to Jena Strong for pointing me to this)
I am reminded of John Cage’s Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds (4′ 33″), the aleatoric techniques of 20th C. composers, and Messaien’s bird song motives. Fabulous.
Musicians see music with their ears and hear music with their eyes. Music is all around us. If only we would stop and hear it…in this case see it.
Thanks for sharing this. I was totally blown away by it — by the melody and by this man’s vision.
Just beautiful – your blog post title (as well as the content) reminds me of Kris Delmhorst’s song, Everything is Music (lyrics here: http://www.krisdelmhorst.com/lyrics/everything-music.html)
Her entire Strange Conversation CD (http://www.krisdelmhorst.com/albums/strange.html) uses the words of various poets (the one I linked to is Rumi) and puts them to music – I have no association with Kris, other than being a long-time fan… :-)
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In 2005, Patti Digh started her blog, 37days, following the death of her stepfather who died just 37 days after being diagnosed with cancer. Six books about living mindfully followed. And there’s more to come.
