Learning to Listen - Patterns in Songs of the Song Sparrow
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | This is Bird Note. In this show, we use a bamboo bird whistle to demonstrate variations in the song of a single song's barrow. |
| 0:12.0 | Hiding, holding, a musician listens carefully to the songs of birds. |
| 0:21.5 | One morning, I was in Dreamland, and I heard this very loud rhythm coming through my window, and it woke me up. |
| 0:31.5 | I decided I was going to try to write down the rhythm, so it went... |
| 0:35.5 | It was really noticeable was that it had three parts to the song. |
| 0:41.5 | The first part, and then a kind of a buzzing, and then five regular notes. |
| 0:49.5 | Okay, so then, one day I noticed that the song was different, and it went... |
| 0:59.5 | You know, day after day, I just kept... There's another one! Oh, there's another one! And I kept writing them down. |
| 1:10.5 | In all, Heidi documented 13 variations. |
| 1:14.5 | What's happened in this later stage of life, with the kids gone and the pets gone, is that I'm beginning to perceive the complexity of all the life forms that have been around me all along, that I just... |
| 1:26.5 | I thought of, oh, those are birds, and now they're not just birds, they're a hundred kinds of birds, with a hundred songs. |
| 1:39.5 | For Bird Note, I'm Mary McCann. |
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