Synthetic Bird Music, by Various Artists

Synthetic Bird Music

by Various Artists

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sleepyheadphone a 32 track compilation may seem daunting at first, but after a few tracks, something magical happens: you zone out and start listening to the tracks almost as part of the same ecosystem, and marvel at all the different shapes and colours and sounds.

Rod Stasick Lovely collection. I’m partial to this concept. I’ve created recordings that sound like a gathering of hundreds of grackles using only electromagnetically generated sound using equipment purchased from the first person on this compilation.

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Profits from the record will be donated to the SOS/BirdLife Slovakia, organisation protecting the bird biotops by river Ipeľ, in south of Slovakia, where mappa has been formed.
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1.	Jonáš Gruska - Svitanie 02:36	info	buy track
2.	Dialect - Yamaha Birds pt 1 02:00	info	buy track
3.	Makakinho do Amor - La guardiana de las ondas radiales 1 02:01	info	buy track
4.	Baldruin - Sonderbare Ereignisse am Lake Hillier 02:57	info	buy track
5.	Olli Aarni - Kirkas laulu, haalea valo 04:54	info	buy track
6.	Øyvind Torvund, BIT20 Ensemble, Trond Madsen, Jørgen Træen, Kjetil Møster - Wind Up Paradise Birds 05:08	info	buy track
7.	Vic Bang - Whizz 04:09	info	buy track
8.	Grykë Pyje - A Glitch In The Jungle 03:22	info	buy track
9.	Tomutonttu - Harpusta / Tarjous 05:58	info	buy track
10.	Native Instrument - Vögel Unserer Heimat 06:36	info	buy track
11.	Hmot - Irekle Qoştar 03:43	info	buy track
12.	Artificial Memory Trace - Ptakodisk 05:46	info	buy track
13.	Floris Vanhoof - Mijn Papegaai Fluit Pure Tonen 02:42	info	buy track
14.	JAB - Aviary 01:49	info	buy track
15.	Cheryl E. Leonard - Susurrus 04:33	info	buy track
16.	Mike Cooper - The Wild Birds Of Bluesealand 06:01	info	buy track
17.	Matthias Puech - Un signe sylvestre 05:25	info	buy track
18.	Enchanted Lands - barrockstadt feathered symphony 02:19	info	buy track
19.	Ursula Sereghy - Kolibřík 02:40	info	buy track
20.	Ecka Mordecai & Malvern Brume - Pigeon Tones for Eggflute 02:02	info	buy track
21.	Banana (Alexandra Spence & MP Hopkins) - Bird to Bottle 05:04	info	buy track
22.	Rie Nakajima - Whistle & Bag 03:46	info	buy track
23.	Martina Lussi - The Listener 04:18	info	buy track
24.	James Rushford - Clivis 02:44	info	buy track
25.	Maria Komarova - While they gathered my ears grew 04:55	info	buy track
26.	Misha Kurilov - Birds in Gutter 03:08	info	buy track
27.	Kate Carr - Three calls 06:31	info	buy track
28.	Infant - starlings gulls doves 03:35	info	buy track
29.	Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Birdsong 05:04	info	buy track
30.	Atte Elias Kantonen - 030652_0125ꜱ12.ᴡᴀᴠ 04:08	info	buy track
31.	Kensho Nakamura - dive woodz 05:41	info	buy track
32.	Felicity Mangan - Time Flys 02:58	info	buy track

about

When you listen to birds, they usually talk about food, sex/family, or anxiety. If they knew about the true nature of humanity's cruel and exploitative relationship with birds, they would be discussing rebellion. Humanity's current trajectory about birds is to cause the extinction of one-third of all bird species by the end of this century.

This record crystallises the borders between memory, beauty, and anxiety. At the core is an amalgam of all the birds we have met and heard, their sounds synthesised from a blend of memories. Esthetically it simulates the qualities of bird sounds, hitting similar frequential sweet spots. There is a great variety of birds captured here, from high to low frequencies, from solo voices to groups, from birds standing on their own to complex world-building, where the bird voices are part of an ecosystem, becoming one of the instruments.

You could stop there, enjoying this record on a musical level, but it invites us to do one step further, to consider reconfiguring our relationship with the Earth and its inhabitants. To question our impact, and to ask why we need synthetic bird music. Is it just a visionary endeavour or is it because we are failing at fostering a world in which organic birds and other creatures can thrive?

32 artists from the whole world, including our favourite artists from Eastern Europe, have contributed to this compilation both with new and previously released music. Their music is ordered from dawn to dusk and into the night. For many of the artists it's their first time on mappa, but some have previously released an album with us.

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Profits from the record will be donated to the SOS/BirdLife Slovakia, organisation protecting the bird biotops by river Ipeľ, in south of Slovakia, where mappa has been formed.
www.vtaky.sk

credits

released November 7, 2023

Thank you to Jonáš Gruska, Dialect, Makakinho do Amor, Baldruin, Olli Aarni, Øyvind Torvund, Vic Bang, Grykë Pyje, Tomutonttu, Native Instrument, HMOT, Artificial Memory Trace, Floris Vanhoof, JAB, Cheryl E. Leonard, Mike Cooper, Matthias Puech, Enchanted Lands, Ursula Sereghy, Ecka Mordecai & Malvern Brume, Banana (Alexandra Spence & MP Hopkins), Rie Nakajima, Martina Lussi, James Rushford, Maria Komarova, Misha Kurilov, Kate Carr, Infant, Andrew Pekler, Atte Elias Kantonen, Kensho Nakamura, Felicity Mangan.

Also to labels: LOM, RVNG Intl., Servinakuy, Hubro, Kit Records, Alter, Shelter Press, In Context Music, tsss tapes

Compiled by Jakub Juhás (mappa)

Artwork by Roberta Di Paolo
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Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
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Liner notes by Andrej Chudý
Photography by Zoltán Czakó

Many thanks to Michaela Cagáňová and Luděk Čertík for careful listening, notes, and help with compiling the tracklist.

Released by mappa as MAP045 in 2023
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