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Piano playing, field recordings and photograph by Kate Romain
Vocals: American robin (turdus migratorius), dark-eyed juncos (junco hyemalis), steller's jays (cyanocitta stelleri) and American crows (corvus brachyrhynchos)
Mixed and mastered by Curtis Fye
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One spring morning I left a microphone by the window to record birdsong while I did my stretches. A month later I was writing this little piano tune and came up with a few twinkly repeated phrases to include at the end of each main section.
Listening back to the tune later on, I thought it would be interesting to hear how it sounded accompanied by some of the birdsong I had recorded. I dragged in the bird track and layered it over the tune. Cue sonic serendipity: listening to the two tracks simultaneously, the robin's chuckling calls happened to exactly match the tempo and rhythm of the piano's five-and-seven-note phrases. How about that?!
Though there is emphasis on the American robin's song/calls, the song also features American crows, dark-eyed juncos and steller's jays.
The birds were compensated with fresh bath water, peanuts and plenty of leaf litter to scrounge around in for insects and worms.
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