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Birds on the Wires

By Miss Cellania in Animal, Music, Video Clips on Sep 9, 2009 at 10:59 am



(vimeo link)

This picture of birds on wires by photographer Paulo Pinto looks like music notation. So Jarbas Agnelli naturally wanted to find out what that music sounded like.

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.

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  1. VM
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    "I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe."

    Especially since there's a commercial for PBS based on the exact same idea.

  2. FishBottleT
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Well Original or not it is still interesting. Music in nature.

  3. felixthecat
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Mathematics underlies everything, waiting, as it were, to be discovered. Here it manifests itself as beautiful music, brought to us by birds. Quite lovely.

  4. Todd Fletcher
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    It looks like music notation if you can't read music: the spaces are used, not just the lines.

  5. Craig
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Hey Todd "Buzzkill" Fletcher: Not every song has to use all the notes.

  6. BrandiH
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    I love it. Such a gorgeous video too!

  7. Carl
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    As people have already noted, especially on the Fark thread about this video, this concept is several years old

    "Birds: Alone in his loft, a composer-played by real-life composer, Walter Boudreau-is struggling with some serious writer's block as he works at his piano. After what appears to be several hours of hard effort, he is rewarded with inspiration from a most unlikely source, the pigeons outside his window. The conclusion: Be More inspired."

  8. Video Game Dork
    Sep 9th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    Neat. However, aren't birds usually portrayed with flutes? :P

  9. Dolly
    Sep 10th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    My late husband, a musician, used to often whistle the tune that the birds on the wire represented as we drove by. He was one of those musicians who could look at a music staff and automatically know exactly what it would sound like. Fun idea! And if as we were passing by they moved and resettled, he would say, "ah, now it's a G minor chord" or whatever.

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