As the Winter white noise fades, the peepers emerge from their silent hibernation to once again sing the sexy song of Spring. Choruses of these pinkletinks take the stage of wetland venues all along the Eastern seaboard to jam on a single note; a slightly rising G tone. This is the highest G found on […]
Archive of posts tagged Animal Music
Stridulations
If the woods were a jam, the crickets would provide a high-pitched pedal point with their incessant chirping for the birds to solo over. Crickets chrip all around a D tone. If you drag the mouse back and forth over the score above, you can get a sense of what a field of crickets sound […]
Musical Dimorphism
Men and women are an octave apart. So too are boys and men. Using the falsetto, or head voice, any man can sing like a woman, or more accurately, sing like a little boy. Try out your falsetto at home now. Sing like the boy who dreamed he was a man. Use your mind to […]
Cardinal
A lot of birds out there sound like dial-up modems, but not many have cool vintage lazer sounds like this guy. In phoneticized bird, he’s saying “purdy purdy purdy – whoit whoit whoit.” Sometimes, he says “wheet” instead. Here’s the full song. I took a lot of artistic license with this one. In reality, birds […]
The Mourning Dove
This little guy is so good. He sounds like a panflute. He flattens the decay on each of his notes. His song is in the key of C# Mixolydian, but he often changes key. The second phrase modulates down a half step, but it isn’t a perfect transposition to C Mixolydian. Instead of hitting the […]
Chickadee
This is my new jam. Boird Band. Go see the myspace yup. It’s ‘free punk’ renditions of classic bird songs. That above boird you’re looking at is a black-capped chickadee. He’s got a nice little song – verse chorus verse. The verse consists of a two-note melody: B ► A, and the killer chorus takes […]
