Posts Tagged 'music in nature'

Pleasant melody or scary scene?

Typically,  swarms of crows  aren’t exactly smiled upon – especially since Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds.

A still from The Birds

A still from The Birds

But one man, Jarbas Agnelli, found inspiration in a group of crows sitting on telephone wires from a picture he saw in the local paper by photographer Paulo Pinto and decided to make a melody based on the strange configuration of birds.

Birds on Wire (original photo by Paulo Pinto with music notes added for effect)

Birds on Wire (original photo by Paulo Pinto - music notes added for effect)

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to embed the video, but be sure to go here to check it out and here the music for yourself.


"He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world to make friends."

- Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being