Friday, September 18, 2009

Birds on a Wire

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.



To quote from Mr. Agnelli:
Reading a newspaper, I saw a 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 (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.

Here I've posted a short video made with the photo, the music and the score (composed by the birds).

2 comments:

Alice said...

I love this. I've had a bit of an obsession with birds on telephone wires for the past couple of years. Thanks for sharing.

Judy said...

Wow, beautiful! I'll never look at birds on a wire in the same way again.