Re: Birds in our trees

[Peter Harlan <pharlan@efn.org>]

Bailey, Jim wrote:
> One last question or two, does anybody here know of someone who has done
> something completely with birds, animals, samples environmental that was
> percussive as these birds were, and last has here anybody used bird calls
> and why?  Was it for a particualar mood, for example.

This is probably not what you're looking for, but there was a prolific
French composer named Olivier Messiaen who incorporated bird calls into
many of his works. He wrote primarily organ and choral works as I
recall.
Interesting person, very eccentric, a mystic.

For something completely different, there's Paul Winter and the various
animal and bird voices he's used over the years. By the way, on one
recording
which I'm sorry to say I can't identify (having just heard this on the
radio
in my car), he uses the song of some Amazon River bird (think that's
right)
which is truly amazing. It is without a doubt the most beautiful bird
song
I've ever heard, and had I not heard it, I wouldn't have ever imagined a
bird could produce shuch sounds. If anybody knows what album this is
from,
please let me know!