bird sheet music

26 miniature movements

arranged by Jon Herring

from the original bird sheets

as laid out in our Liverpool landscape

from the first

1)        6th May: 5.00 – 9.00 am springfield park

to the last

26)      10th October: 11.00 princes park

some true to form

some embellished with refrains

all performed

with gusto

by the a.P.A.t.T orchestra

bird sheet music began like this…

the wonderful

the a.P.A.t.T. orchestra

bird sheet music aired

in installation

and in music

in installation 

helmut lemke

soundings

echoing

the nature of the city

with backdrop

droppings

less was more

in the Art Dock, Tate Liverpool 20.01.2013

you are cordially invited to…

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soon, the sounds in music will reach our ears. in the meantime, walks along the score. 

Every living thing creates detritus, detritus is part of life, and without it, life would collapse. It’s a part of the cycle of natural ecosystems in our liverpool landscape; in any landscape. bird sheet music: soundings about the environment, nature, and ecology

not only birds left their mark on bird sheet scores. kids on bikes make tracks too. beautiful.

out in the elements, the elements: the rain (it seemed to rain non stop for days on end) pulped and purged the paper, poo, and anything else that landed on the score. the result: vibrant visual score awash with babble.

BIRD SHEET MUSIC IS COMING SOON

The scores are in…

laid out

pooped on

rolled up

rolled out

the scores ready to read

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music at our feet

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recording

in sequence

each and every note

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from scores on the floor

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jon

transcribing

notating

notes

to score

in hand

for hand

held music

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bird sheet music

is out of my hands

in the hands of the composer

on the stands of the musicians

in rehearsal

the recital

20th January 2013

Tate Liverpool Foyer

2.30pm 3.30pm & 4.30pm

creating bird sheet music, a blackbird and a thrush feeding on rowan berries, in Madryn Street: the Welsh Streets, Liverpool. With a nod: free as a bird.