study for a colonial echoic: mr bird learns an old warning song from 2015 new song by f a sumon Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 21 sec
✓ Published: 05-Apr-2017

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The song of a wild bird, transcribed to the musical notation of the European culture which hunted it to extinction in colonial New Zealand, is played back on a small hand-cranked acoustic music box over 100 years later to a caged domestic canary in a London apartment.nnAt first, the canary listens to the music, occasionally seeming to chirp affirmatively, as though to say: