Bird’s-Eye: Not just a bird’s eye, but bird songs, slowed down so humans can hear and appreciate them. Then a youtube video of everyone in the bar crowding around to watch a glorious Chico Marx piano performance, and a Devo song that asks you listen and become part of a focus group that tells the band what they like or don’t about the song. It’s like a bird that gets or doesn’t get opposite sex interest based on its song. Plus ça change….

* Revealing The Intricacy Of Bird Songs

Birds are thought to have a finer temporal discrimination of sounds than humans. This means they hear the individual elements of composite sounds that for us appear as a single blurred sound. Their hearing may have up to eight times the temporal resolution that ours can achieve.

One way getting some impression of this is by slowing down bird sounds; the simple way of doing this also lowers the pitch of the sound by the same factor and this is a fascinating way of tuning in to the hidden depth of birdsong, a kind of transformation to a more human musical sensibility. (Editor’s Note: The nightingale is the best!)

* Chico Marx Go West youtube

* DEVO – Fresh Youtube

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