The Winter Wren's Song, Slowed Down, Reveals Breathtaking Details
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- The male Winter Wren's song is energetic and bewildering to the human ear. But scale down his song in both pitch and pacing and the details that are revealed are amazing! When I listen I feel the wren pouring out his beautiful, hopeful, intricate heart to greet the spring.
That's it, im playing this on the flute
"All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all."
Some of the sentiments in that hymn are terrible ("The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate") but I've loved it since I was a little boy at an English public school (what's called a private school everywhere else) singing it at assembly and the first line was my favourite. Have an upvote.
I sympathise but that first quote is not from the Bible.
Brilliant. thanks for putting that up.
I bet these songs sound different to birds. They have very fast brains. We've all seen them flying at speed through trees & foliage without hitting anything...imagine control of wings, tail, beak & even individual feathers for some birds, as they race through crazy diffiicult spots with amasing precision. The best human pilot would have a meltdown, aha..I doubt even computer aided flight would help enough.
Fascinating! Genius!
What a marvelous composition!
I'd love to see a spectrograph version of this, the waveform showing volume isn't as revealing as one showing the pitch relationships...
Me too! I'm checking out how I can make that happen...
Andrew Gallagher you can download Sonic Visualizer for free! And there’s tutorials on CZcams
Reminds me of the Clangers
I would love to hear this slowed down to sound like their ancestors- the dinosaur. As we watch our little "mini-T-Rex" wrens terrorize the insect world, we can't help but be grateful that these cute little warriors are so little. Imagine if they WERE T-Rex sized!!
That would be terrifying but cool at the same time and I'm pretty sure our society would build like huge fortresses to keep them out or to contain them but yeah I can totally imagine them painting T-Rex size holy cow.
It sounds like somebody whistling instead of a bird chirping and trying to mimic the bird.
If you slow it down even more it will sound like Whale cries
Animals seem to have language too, but of course it is much more primitive than human language.
So, in short, because the effects that the symbolic human language make possible - mass production, mass pollution and mass destruction, our language is capable of steering us towards extinction (and possibly a planetary extinction - nuclear war)
Maybe it is our language that is the "primitive" one?
Gloomy thoughts aside, the slowed-down birdsong made me feel very reassured in my own idle humming and whistling. It was quite nice to hear.
That would be HIS song...
+Ken Burton Edited on 4/22/16. Thanks Ken!
interesting :o)
Is it me, or is 0:27 STRIKINGLY similar to the American National Anthem?!!
Laura Yakas You are right, but only for a few notes, it goes "O-oh say can you" but then goes into something different. Shahp eah you got theyah sweethaaht.
Laura Yakas You are right, but only for a few notes, it goes "O-oh say can you" but then goes into something different. Shahp eah you got theyah sweethaaht.
There are at least 100,000 uses of the same intervals in the same order that could remind you of the American national anthem.... that's what happens when such primary harmonic stuff ends up in a song you're familiar with, you think a lot else must remind you of the familiar piece. The intervals and their order are 'pennies of the realm' of diatonic music. Nothing unique about them at all, other than the fact you've been exposed to a tune that has them in it first, and for many times.
That was scary for some reason