Wonderful images, words, and recordings Alan.
VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. ________________________________ From: NetBehaviour <[email protected]> on behalf of Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2020 8:49 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Blackbird sonic environment Blackbird sonic environment http://www.alansondheim.org/P1100442.JPG red-wing blackbird http://www.alansondheim.org/blackbird.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/blackbird2oct.mp3 2 octaves lower http://www.alansondheim.org/P1100454.JPG red-wind environment The complex variety and temporal spacing of red-wing blackbird calls are fascinating; I do believe there is a language, a semantics, we do not understand. The recording was done in a thicket near a path in a reservoir area in Aurora, Colorado. I used a Zoom H4n placed among the foliage; it's the first recording. The second is simply lowering the first two octaves. There is wind noise, the sound of a metal chime in someone's backyard, etc. But the acoustic environment is as clear as I could make it. I hope to record again before we leave Colorado in six days. I hope for better weather; at the moment there is a blizzard and whiteout in the area. This, and the amazing activity of thousands of sandhill cranes earlier in central Nebraska, gives me hope, a worlds opening all around us, epiphanies. The recordings are important, however amateurish; they give room for contemplation, for meditation far enough away from talk of epidemics that a form of perspective develops, not quite healing, but closer. Otherwise plague chases us, we succumb to the anxiety and skewed irreal reflection of a real that seems both untoward fantasm, and lost. Some of the calls we can decipher, some of them are deceptively simple, all except for the timing and length of the notes. We do that in morse - dots and dashes, everything similar, reducible to just a few intervals - but we might not hear it in everyday speech, our long and short vowels and consonants a pale reflection. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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