Birds on the Wires

by Scott Beale on September 8, 2009 · 11 comments

“Birds on the Wires”, a beautiful video created by Jarbas Agnelli of São Paulo who saw a photo of birds on electric wires by Paul Pinto in a newspaper and decided to create a song based on the birds locations as musical notes.

via The Daily What

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1 ampersand September 9, 2009 at 3:16 am

This reminds me of the “be more inspired” commercial bumper PBS used to air, in which a composer struggling with writer’s block finds sudden inspiration via the arrangement of birds on telephone wires outside his studio. Can’t find the link on YouTube at the moment, but the idea is the same.

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2 Stephanie September 11, 2009 at 11:41 am

First thing I thought of too, actually.

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3 Dale September 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm

That is referenced here:

http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20020726_bemore.html

Birds: Alone in his loft, a composer-played by real-life composer, Walter Boudreau, is struggling with some serious writer’s block as he works at his piano. After what appears to be several hours of hard effort, he is rewarded with inspiration from a most unlikely source, the pigeons outside his window. The conclusion: Be More inspired.

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4 Joshua September 9, 2009 at 7:26 am

very nicely done! i enjoyed that :)

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5 Dalio September 9, 2009 at 9:12 am

That is fantastically ingenious. Now I’ll be looking at birds differently on my walk to work in the mornings.

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6 Logan September 9, 2009 at 11:37 am

This is beautiful. Great idea and great video.

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7 Dee September 9, 2009 at 12:53 pm

Thank you. What an incredibly creative idea. The video, the birds, the song is absolutely lovely.

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8 Kay September 9, 2009 at 2:38 pm

This is so beautiful. It made me cry. Thank you so much.

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9 7even September 9, 2009 at 4:42 pm

This was nice but calm down people. There just birds on a wire. There are other things we should be crying about like Obama talking to school children. Joking that actually goes on the list of things to calm down about right above birds on wires.
But yes this was nice.

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10 Sarashira September 10, 2009 at 5:07 am

Thanks for “seeing” the sounds, “hearing” the design, investing your talent, and sharing. What comes from the heart, speaks to the heart.

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11 Rodney Loewen October 9, 2009 at 6:40 pm

This is very original and I quite fantastic! What a great artistic combination of sight and sound.

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