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Birds on the Wires

submitted by tedbater

1 decade 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

From the original:
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.

I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.

Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).

Music made with Logic.
Video made with After Effects.

The newspaper story about my work (O Estado de São Paulo): tinyurl.com/l4qdbg

15 Comments

I took a photograph of shit in the toilet , I then took the arangment of the shit and made it into a song , literally crating the song the shit had produced.

Moving this video to tedbater's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Just saw this one on Neatorama - this is way to neat not to get out. *promote.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by dag.

This seems like a good movie idea...

*art *animation

Adding video to channels (Animation, Art) - requested by EndAll.

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds: The Musical.

Love it! *quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by maatc.

did he steal the idea from the PBS commercial? Or did they steal it from him?

*nature

*wings

Adding video to channels (Nature, Wings) - requested by calvados.

Very cool, but this was actually a PBS commercial. Let me see if I can find it.

Found it in an article... can't find an actual video:

http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20020726_bemore.html

Relevant part:

"Girard infused his expertise and passion for music into:

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."

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