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 ~ 4.5 minutes
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Computer-synthesized recording, created with virtual orchestra sounds, including East West Quantum Leap and Native Instruments Kontakt 3.
LISTEN to Susan Jackson performing Communing with Birds, streaming hosted at SoundClick
Catalog # 51002, 51002pdf
Flutists! Check out more flute music, from the Poetry-Inspired Music project:
the solo High Flight, flute-percussion duos "float into the quiet skies" and "melt into the flux"
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