Replied to a tweet by Tim Prebble (Twitter)

Re: #birdsong: @timprebble Have you heard "Slow Motion Blackbird” By Chris Hughes? http://goo.gl/RRUy85
— Mark McGuire (@mark_mcguire) January 12, 2014

@mark_mcguire this is my bellbird proof of concept for one of my residency projectshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqy67k_RlrY
— Tim Prebble (@timprebble) January 12, 2014

I had posted about watching Tim’s experiment and a fellow academic replied to me via Mastodon that about a reverse experiment from 1715 that may be of interest:

@chrisaldrich Everything old ( from 1715) is new again The Bird Fancyer’s Delight (Walsh, John) – IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download

Although strictly speaking, the goal here was to get birds to imitate the written recorder tunes rather than vice versa.

—Jason Green, January 24, 2020 at 12:27 pm