Good day out there.
You know how sometimes you’re listening to a bird and its song isn’t always exactly the same? It’s as if sometimes a note gets caught in its throat, or it gets confused in the middle of the song. Or maybe it’s intentional. I don’t know.
Anyway, when I first played around with some of the musical phrases you’ll hear today, I had no doubt that the subsconscious reference in my mind was a bird. I’m not a birder but I know I’ve often heard birds that sort of play on a few notes once or twice before ending on a just a single note in the way that this piece of music starts out.
Beyond the initial phrase (the “song”) I tried to make this sound a little more linear in the musical sense, as opposed to making this more strictly an instrumental imitation of nature. I played around with a few different ways of doing that, not because I feel that music has to be any one thing (including “linear”) but it was fun seeing how I could try to have the bird live in a slightly broader “musical habitat.” In general though, I still wanted to hold on to that sense of there being a stopping and starting as with a bird singing, wherein there is plenty of silence in between each of its utterances.
Eventually I just decided not to overthink things and am sending this out as is, despite there being so many possible directions. I had to cut myself off from a neurotic pursuit of all the possible variations of the song — the mistakes or intentional alterations it makes.
Finally, I initially called this “birdcall.” Until now I never thought about the difference between a bird’s song and its call. Apparently there is a difference. Forgive my ignorance on this subject.
Have a nice week.
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