Bertotti
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Does anyone Renner they guy who took pictures of birds on electrical wires then laid it out on a musical staff and played it based on where the birds sat?
Bird music.
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Bertotti
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Found it, I find it amazing! I also didn’t know YouTube had its own symphony orchestra.
Bertotti
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I know! It is a relaxingly beautiful piece.I never knew that birds were so smart.
Crosby not so much.I never knew that birds were so smart.
cielski
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Be kind to the dearly departed.
Indeed, it is.
bobeschism
Synchromatic
The end composition played by the orchestra is a beautiful piece, and I think that part of the reason we find it so musical is that the birds are in the 'spaces' of the musical stave, giving the last 5 notes of the A minor diatonic scale (F, A, C, E, G) , with the timings and length of the notes and rests decided by the composer.
Purely by chance, I was visiting the Tate Gallery in Liverpool this afternoon, and saw this work by the Argentinian artist, Jorge Macchi. It didn't take long to realise he was employing a similar technique as in the bird video, except that the notes were played on a music box with the timings decided by the cars entering the frame, and the notes were from both the spaces and the lines of the stave, vertically rather than horizontally. I had to film it to share with you:
@Bertotti
Purely by chance, I was visiting the Tate Gallery in Liverpool this afternoon, and saw this work by the Argentinian artist, Jorge Macchi. It didn't take long to realise he was employing a similar technique as in the bird video, except that the notes were played on a music box with the timings decided by the cars entering the frame, and the notes were from both the spaces and the lines of the stave, vertically rather than horizontally. I had to film it to share with you:
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LOL that is too cool. Now do different spieces of birds compose different kind of music? I'd like to hear the Ramones birds 
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Bertotti
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Now I have that song in my head! Styx Thanks! Of course there are worse songs to have in your head. But I am now seriously gassing for that Oberheim! Sorry got side tracked blame @thunder58
Now no offense intended but I think the birds were way more melodic!
I wonder what else we could look at and find music in it.
Bertotti
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Of course we all know what black crows and a flock of seagulls sound like, quite different but neither was horrible.LOL that is too cool. Now do different spiaces of birds compose different kind of music? I'd like to hear the Ramones birds
Bertotti
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Now that we have seen and heard the music towards the end the piece is played by the Youtube symphony orchestra. When did youtube get an orchestra? I can't imagine they would do it for the heck of it so they must make money off of it.
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bobeschism
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YouTube Symphony Orchestra - Wikipedia
It seems the Youtube Symphony Orchestra have only performed twice: once in April 2009 at Carnegie Hall, and again at the Sydney Opera House on March 20, 2011.
In the intro to the performance of the birds piece at the Guggenheim, we are told "Musicians from the Juillard School and the Youtube Symphony Orchestra", so I'm assuming they were some of the musicians who had performed with the YSO on those previous dates?
journeyman
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I thought this thread was going to be about Charlie Parker. 
I will point out that the fifth post is somewhat diminished, at only four words long.I thought this thread was going to be about Charlie Parker.
journeyman
Synchromatic
Ah, so it IS about CP after all.I will point out that the fifth post is somewhat diminished, at only four words long.
Eagles as well, and even an Atomic Rooster!
Bertotti
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Exactly! I must say I think the Eagle nailed it more often than not. Not nearly as relaxing as the birds above but totally different than the Byrds.Eagles as well, and even an Atomic Rooster!
