I’ve been watching birds for years and have tried to train my ear to recognize different bird songs, but I don’t try to transcribe them exactly. This piece has many musical gestures that have the shape of bird song. The idea of this piece is my image of a flutist at dawn in a local woods or distant rainforest, having a conversation with the resident birds.

The music of Communing with Birds for flute was inspired by my trip to the bird-filled mountainsides of Costa Rica. I recorded the bird sounds while I was there and have also made a meditative birdscape CD.

Duration approximately 4'30"

Catalog # 51002, 51002pdf

Flutists are also invited to check out the flute music from the Poetry-Inspired Music project: the solo High Flight, and the two flute-percussion duos "float into the quiet skies" and "melt into the flux".