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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
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westyI 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.
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dagComment 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.
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StingrayThis seems like a good movie idea...
EndAll*art *animation
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PaybackAlfred Hitchcock's The Birds: The Musical.
maatcLove it! *quality
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happyTurtledid he steal the idea from the PBS commercial? Or did they steal it from him?
calvados*nature

*wings
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ponceleonVery cool, but this was actually a PBS commercial. Let me see if I can find it.
ponceleonFound 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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