Dawn Chorus
installed at the Old House
Museum for the Bakewell Festival
Dawn Chorus is a sound piece in which urban noises
are transformed into birdsong. The artist takes field recordings
of urban sounds, such as traffic and building sites, and uses
them as the input for music recognition software, using the midi
bird tweet setting. The sounds emanate from small boxes, which
intermittently play ten second bursts of ‘birdsong’.
These nesting boxes hint at attempts to reintroduce something
lost, resonating with the eclectic social history collection of
the Old House Museum.
Dawn Chorus was comissioned for Art Sheffield 03, and was first installed at the Sheffield Winter Gardens.