Birds On The Wires

[charisstoma]

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Uploaded on Sep 6, 2009
Soundtrack available here: http://tinyurl.com/7xj6net

Top 25 Videos YouTube Play Guggenheim 2010. See the live performance at the award ceremony: http://youtu.be/LalgAkf8mmU

Reading the newspaper one morning, I saw this 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. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

This work was made over the original photo, un-retouched, published in one of the biggest Brazilian newspapers, "O Estado de São Paulo" on 27/aug/2009, and shot by Paulo Pinto (note: I just erased the birds for effect at the end, but didn't change their positions at all. What would be the point?).

I've made this short video to demonstrate my interpretation of the birds as notes.

Music made with Logic.
Video made with After Effects.

Jarbas Agnelli

Comments

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Clever, I like that idea, it works too

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Whoever took the picture couldn't have seen the movie The Birds. *evil smile*

[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

LOL

[seeking-galileo.livejournal.com]

Very, very cool.
It's so neat to see how people view the world. I'm not sure I would have made the leap from birds on wires to music notes on staff.
Very, very cool.
I may need to steal and put it on Facebook.

[(Anonymous)]

*smiiiiiiiiiiles* "I may need to steal and put it on Facebook."
I stole this from the Orchestra teacher's account on Facebook. He posts many interesting things. He's ... quirky and a good place for finding a smile.
I'd never heard of this competition. This music becomes an earworm for me.
It should go viral.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Now How do I edit my anonymous post?
Dang it.