Hey everyone.
I found something cool and interesting kind of relating to our class so I thought I would post something on the blog.
A composer named Andrew Bird is a musician that specializes in playing string instruments. His latest album Echolocations: Canyons focuses around natural forming acoustic spaces. He wrote an entire album based on the way sound moves through canyons. I found it interesting that this artist chose a location and thought about how the sound moved in relation to the environment before starting to actually compose music. He let his environment kind of due it for him. Below is a quote from Bird explaining a little about this process. Also attached is a quick “trailer” to him album as well as a song from it. I hope you check it out it’s dope.

“Ever since I was a child I would test different spaces with my voice or whistle or violin. Whatever sound you make it’s like a giant limb that can reach beyond your fingers and grope the corners of the room.  Now when I’m on tour playing a different theater every night we “tune” the room hunting down the bass traps and the standing waves to give the listener the most even and wide spectrum sound. There are certain frequencies that resonate while others are lifeless. Sometimes the room refuses to yield and I have to consider playing different songs that will work in that room. It’s a challenge but I enjoy the moments when I must yield to the environment. So I thought it would be interesting to take all this outside where the reflections off the landscape are triggering countless inferences and steering the conversation.”

Trailer:

The Canyon Wants To Hear C Sharp: