'Acidbirdbath'

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2007 Sound

Acidbirdbath is an Acid House inspired piece of music created using snippets of recorded birdsong. Other than the removal of background noise on a couple of the bird samples, and some use of panning, the bird's calls are unadulterated and have no effects added to them.


The composition of this piece is based on Moondog's 'Symphonique #6'. -Starting with a repeated bass melody (the call of a Bitten,) a new melody (sung by a different bird) is added after every four bars, layering on top of the previous repeating melodies. New birdsongs are added in this way until a final crescendo.


The different birds appear in the composition in this order:


1. the Bitten
2. the Black Grouse
3. the Ptarmigan
4. the Corncrake
5. the Crow
6. the Chaffinch
7. the Lapwing
8. the Spotted Crake
9. the Curlew
10. the Guillemot
11. the Tawny Owl
12. the Magpie