• Music made out of bird shit to premiere in Liverpool
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21082873[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]A piece of music that was composed by waiting for bird droppings to fall onto giant sheets of manuscript paper is to receive its premiere later.[/B] Artist Kerry Morrison laid manuscript sheets on the ground in Liverpool parks and let birds deposit their droppings. Composer Jon Hering has transformed the bum notes into a full musical score. Morrison said the 20-minute Bird Sheet Music, to be performed at the Tate Liverpool art gallery, represented the role birds play in the environment. "They play a massive part in the ecosystem of the city through their droppings - they disperse seeds, also their droppings help the enrichment of the soil, so we get fertiliser," she said. "It's something people don't often think about. The whole thing about looking at detritus and waste tends to be quite negative. People think it's mucky or horrible, but of course it's critical to life on earth." Hering was told to remain faithful to the positions of the droppings on the score and the order in which they fell, Morrison said. Sound artist Helmut Lemke has also incorporated birdsong and the other sounds of park life. The composition will be performed by the experimental Liverpool-based aPAtT Orchestra.[/quote] There is a clip in the link
I bet it's going to be completely shitty. This is some stupid idea a marketer crapped out to draw publicity. What an asshole.
Oh..I thought this was just a weird title. Why is this the one time the title is accurate?
Why would you do this?
one directions next big hit
Ah liverpool. Great music decendants from The Beatles.
even this shit is better than call me maybe
I thought they had recorded birdshit falling onto something or whatever but seeing that they just made notes of it and listening to the clip in the article, that's pretty fucking awesome!
[QUOTE=smurfy;39284441]Bird Sheet Music[/QUOTE] rofl
a music teacher i had once created a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique]12-tone serial composition[/url] by taking a really long piece of butcher paper, drawing out staffs and lines, laying out in the quad, and just letting birds shit on it, and picking 12 shits to be the tones used
I guess fertilizing is useful for more than just farming.
[QUOTE=Strongbad;39284450]I bet it's going to be completely shitty. This is some stupid idea a marketer crapped out to draw publicity. What an asshole.[/QUOTE] You shouldn't be shitting on someone else's idea of music.
The idea is fucking stupid but the music doesn't sound like a massive jumble of crap like you might expect (no pun).
Edit: That joke was bad.
[QUOTE=Deiru;39284456]Oh..I thought this was just a weird title. Why is this the one time the title is accurate?[/QUOTE] and a smurfy title to top it all off
now welcome the liverpool beatle boys
[QUOTE=Deiru;39284456]Oh..I thought this was just a weird title. Why is this the one time the title is accurate?[/QUOTE] Got to keep people guessing
[QUOTE=snapshot32;39284736]Edit: That joke was bad.[/QUOTE] I know that fecal bro
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