My obsession with birds is now seriously cemented, but I don’t have it in me to be a twitcher. My memory just isn’t up to bird watching. At least, I will always get joy from seeing a bird, I even like feral pigeons. But try as I might I can’t tell one bird call from another, and facts and names don’t stick in my head.
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Making a route determined by overlaying the sheet music from London Bridge is Falling Down onto a map of London, I recorded the sounds and images at points where the notes fell on the cityscape. These co-ordinates provided the score for the piece and by using software that translated images into sound and original source recordings, I was able to mix the work live on each journey through a speaker system we installed throughout the bus, as it followed the original walk shuttling between Big Ben and St Paul’s Cathedral.
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