Comments on: Cantos De Aves Do Brasil http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: xsus http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-746241 xsus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-746241 This link has some interesting recordings. The underwater seal calls definitely have an old analog synth sound. http://www.virtualantarctica.com/mawson2000/sounds.htm This link has some interesting recordings. The underwater seal calls definitely have an old analog synth sound.

http://www.virtualantarctica.com/mawson2000/sounds.htm

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-746070 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-746070 Birds who utilize different parts of their syrinx don't necessarily make particularly funky sounds. The relatively mundane song of the Northern Cardinal uses 1/2 of it's vocal apparatus to make the high tones in its swooping song and 1/2 to make the low tones. Young cardinals who haven't yet learned to use the different parts together smoothly sometimes have a little hiccup in the middle of the rising and falling waves of the song. If you want your mind seriously blown about the complexities of bird song, check out Donald Kroodsma's <ital>Singing Life of Birds</ital>, that includes this info and so much more. The extreme slow motion recordings of the flutey song of the Wood Thrush are some of the coolest Space Music you're likely to hear. Birds who utilize different parts of their syrinx don’t necessarily make particularly funky sounds. The relatively mundane song of the Northern Cardinal uses 1/2 of it’s vocal apparatus to make the high tones in its swooping song and 1/2 to make the low tones. Young cardinals who haven’t yet learned to use the different parts together smoothly sometimes have a little hiccup in the middle of the rising and falling waves of the song.

If you want your mind seriously blown about the complexities of bird song, check out Donald Kroodsma’s Singing Life of Birds, that includes this info and so much more. The extreme slow motion recordings of the flutey song of the Wood Thrush are some of the coolest Space Music you’re likely to hear.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-746076 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-746076 *facepalm* So I played the sample, and my dog and cat, both of whom are usually happy to ignore any noise that comes from the TV, stereo, or computer, became quite alert and started looking around to see where the loud chirping was coming from. *facepalm*

So I played the sample, and my dog and cat, both of whom are usually happy to ignore any noise that comes from the TV, stereo, or computer, became quite alert and started looking around to see where the loud chirping was coming from.

]]> By: Steve Sacharoff http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-746631 Steve Sacharoff Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-746631 I don't know anything about this cd but the merchant site clearly says in Portuguese that it is not available - In addition I do know that whenever I've tried to buy Brazilian music CDs direct the merchants write me they cannot send CDs to the USA because of some kind of pricing agreement with the recording companies. I don’t know anything about this cd but the merchant site clearly says in Portuguese that it is not available – In addition I do know that whenever I’ve tried to buy Brazilian music CDs direct the merchants write me they cannot send CDs to the USA because of some kind of pricing agreement with the recording companies.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745619 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745619 This disc is out of print here in Brazil... (is that how you'd say it, "out of print"?)... It's very rare even here. So... COUGH http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mq2ydnwnuz2 COUGH This disc is out of print here in Brazil… (is that how you’d say it, “out of print”?)… It’s very rare even here.

So… COUGH http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mq2ydnwnuz2 COUGH

]]> By: davigoli http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745620 davigoli Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745620 Definitely some heterodyning FM action going on in that sound. Thanks for sharing! Definitely some heterodyning FM action going on in that sound. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745887 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745887 Ahh!! I love bird field recordings. Thanks so much anon for sharing! And the Uirapuru is great!! :D Ahh!! I love bird field recordings. Thanks so much anon for sharing! And the Uirapuru is great!!

:D

]]> By: KBert http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745654 KBert Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745654 OK! I'm disoriented. Evocative, yes! OK! I’m disoriented. Evocative, yes!

]]> By: Chrisos http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-746435 Chrisos Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-746435 Don't quote me, as I'm not an avian biologist, or biologist, or scientist of any sort, or..., etc. But..., I heard a radio programme a year or two ago on the subject of birdsong* and I seem to remember that the two tone thing is pretty standard for your average birdie**. While humans have a larynx, a voice box between mouth and where the two lungs join into the wind pipe, birds have a syrinx (sp?) meaning that they have effectively two voice boxes, one for each lung before the airway joins into the one wind pipe. Hence their ability to make two sounds at once, or appear to change tone very rapidly, making sounds that the poor old human with his mere larynx cannot. * Bless BBC 4! What don't they cover in their programming schedules? ** Evidence I am no Avian Biologist, they would never use the term "birdie"! Don’t quote me, as I’m not an avian biologist, or biologist, or scientist of any sort, or…, etc.

But…, I heard a radio programme a year or two ago on the subject of birdsong* and I seem to remember that the two tone thing is pretty standard for your average birdie**.

While humans have a larynx, a voice box between mouth and where the two lungs join into the wind pipe, birds have a syrinx (sp?) meaning that they have effectively two voice boxes, one for each lung before the airway joins into the one wind pipe. Hence their ability to make two sounds at once, or appear to change tone very rapidly, making sounds that the poor old human with his mere larynx cannot.

* Bless BBC 4! What don’t they cover in their programming schedules?
** Evidence I am no Avian Biologist, they would never use the term “birdie”!

]]> By: Boeotian http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745675 Boeotian Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745675 Ha! I was momentarily stunned to see a headline written in portuguese here in BB. We certainly do have lovely singing birds here. I fondly recall a house where we used to live, in a small town, with large front yard and back yard, where in the mornings I would wake up to this almost chaotic ensemble of birds. It felt so good. I grew up taking care of little stray birds, hurt or lost, mostly sparrows and kiskadees, which we call bem-te-vi (it translates to something like "I see you well"). I even took care of a little hummingbird, fed him through the flowers in our garden for days, but it eventually perished, and was buried under our guava tree. Good times. I feel almost childlike right now. Ha! I was momentarily stunned to see a headline written in portuguese here in BB.

We certainly do have lovely singing birds here. I fondly recall a house where we used to live, in a small town, with large front yard and back yard, where in the mornings I would wake up to this almost chaotic ensemble of birds. It felt so good.

I grew up taking care of little stray birds, hurt or lost, mostly sparrows and kiskadees, which we call bem-te-vi (it translates to something like “I see you well”). I even took care of a little hummingbird, fed him through the flowers in our garden for days, but it eventually perished, and was buried under our guava tree.

Good times. I feel almost childlike right now.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745693 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745693 Wow. This is a strange, unexpected blast from the past. Dalgas used to call my house in the early 1980s; he and my Dad were working together on a project tracking migration patterns of Purple Martins between Illinois and Brazil. I used to struggle to understand his super-cool and thick accent when I was just a little boy. My Dad went to Brazil a couple of times, and so there are all sorts of pictures in our rural, middle of nowhere house where I grew up... of my Dad and a bunch of Brazilians hanging out in Brazil, and chief among them is Dalgas wearing wide brimmed hats. Didn't expect to see his name. Wow. This is a strange, unexpected blast from the past. Dalgas used to call my house in the early 1980s; he and my Dad were working together on a project tracking migration patterns of Purple Martins between Illinois and Brazil. I used to struggle to understand his super-cool and thick accent when I was just a little boy. My Dad went to Brazil a couple of times, and so there are all sorts of pictures in our rural, middle of nowhere house where I grew up… of my Dad and a bunch of Brazilians hanging out in Brazil, and chief among them is Dalgas wearing wide brimmed hats.

Didn’t expect to see his name.

]]> By: Fred H http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745698 Fred H Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745698 HA! 'mad avian skills.' HA! ‘mad avian skills.’

]]> By: GoodBlood http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745708 GoodBlood Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745708 OMG I listened to this album a lot as a kid in the 70s! Fond memories. My parents probably still have it somewhere in the house. I still remember clearly the deep voice saying, "canto do uirapuru," and then the super nice uirapuru's singing. That was my favourite bird in the album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsAuxIjE_Y But the crazy araponga was cool too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oakqWNNFwLU Yay, Mr Frisch on boingboing! OMG I listened to this album a lot as a kid in the 70s! Fond memories. My parents probably still have it somewhere in the house. I still remember clearly the deep voice saying, “canto do uirapuru,” and then the super nice uirapuru’s singing. That was my favourite bird in the album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsAuxIjE_Y

But the crazy araponga was cool too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oakqWNNFwLU

Yay, Mr Frisch on boingboing!

]]> By: friendpuppy http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745712 friendpuppy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745712 Yes, there is modulation going on. Could be AM and FM. Yes, there is modulation going on. Could be AM and FM.

]]> By: zkvn http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745972 zkvn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745972 oh man, i want this record! more birdness: in 1960, Jim Fassett put out "Symphony of the Birds", which has a bunch of bird songs in unadulterated and manipulated form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rKjOR-4964 Jim Fassett bio: http://www.answers.com/topic/jim-fassett oh man, i want this record!

more birdness:

in 1960, Jim Fassett put out “Symphony of the Birds”, which has a bunch of bird songs in unadulterated and manipulated form:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rKjOR-4964

Jim Fassett bio:

http://www.answers.com/topic/jim-fassett

]]> By: zkvn http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745974 zkvn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745974 forgot to mention it was reissued by Japanese label EM Records a few years back. a bit pricey, but totally worth it if you're into this kinda thing forgot to mention it was reissued by Japanese label EM Records a few years back. a bit pricey, but totally worth it if you’re into this kinda thing

]]> By: gmoke http://boingboing.net/2010/03/26/cantos-de-aves-do-br.html#comment-745726 gmoke Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-745726 Years ago, I visited Guadaloupe, my first time to the Caribbean. The first night I stepped out to go to dinner and heard a variety of birds singing in the bushes. Immediately, I knew where all the polyrhythms in tropical music come from. All the different birdsongs all at once made a music all its own. Years ago, I visited Guadaloupe, my first time to the Caribbean. The first night I stepped out to go to dinner and heard a variety of birds singing in the bushes. Immediately, I knew where all the polyrhythms in tropical music come from. All the different birdsongs all at once made a music all its own.

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