Music for the Birds

How cool is this. A Brazilian musician has just completed a collaboration with an unusual partner: a large group of birds sitting on telephone wires.

According to reports, Jarbas Agnelli saw a newspaper photo of a large flock of black birds sitting on the wires and recognized that their configuration looked very much like a musical score. Starting from there, he arranged and recorded a composition, using xylophone, bassoon, oboe and clarinet using, of course, the notes laid out by the birds on the wire.

"The pleasing melody is not my invention. It was the birds' idea," Agnelli told the Daily Mail. "The notes are the exact position of the birds (in between the lines). The rhythm is a interpretation of their position, since there are no bar lines."

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.