We are artists from the Burragorang Valley NSW. A bird heaven!
We are working on an sound/sculpture installation for Goulburn
Gallery NSW in
October entitled 'Bird Cry from the Grassy Box Woodlands.'
We are wanting to collect mnemonics and onomatopoeias for Australian
birds.
We have the obvious bird books which tend to be better for
onomatopoeias, though the Friar birds' "an extraordinary jumble of
notes one of which has been interpreted as 4 o'clock" has always been
a favourite.
The plan is to use the sound descriptions as a score to be
interpreted by musicians, this 'recreated' bird sound is what we hear
in the exhibition.
If we don't save our birds from extinction only the human record
remains. For instance the call of the Dodo may have been doo doo! or
not...
Do any of you have words you use to describe or help remember bird
calls?
To see/hear an example of our previous work with birds: http://
www.burragorang.org/ossature/Ossature.html
Thanks for your help Boyd and Alison.
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