Comments on: Birds on the Wires

By: Dolly

Dolly — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:28:35 +0000

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.

By: Video Game Dork

Video Game Dork — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:55:24 +0000

Neat. However, aren’t birds usually portrayed with flutes?

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:55:14 +0000

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.”

By: BrandiH

BrandiH — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:33:31 +0000

I love it. Such a gorgeous video too!

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:06:31 +0000

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

By: Todd Fletcher

Todd Fletcher — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:52:47 +0000

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

By: felixthecat

felixthecat — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:59:37 +0000

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

By: FishBottleT

FishBottleT — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:30:52 +0000

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

By: VM

VM — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:07:37 +0000

“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.