Label: Holidays Records

カルト名作が正規再発!!ビジュアルアーティスト、映画監督、科学者、即興サックス奏者として活動するPatrick Lysaght。氏が1984年から1985年にかけての18ヶ月間を使い、アルバカーキはリオグランデ動物園にあるレインフォレスト・バードハウスにて録音した42種150羽の鳥たちとの共演録音。フルート、弦楽器、パーカッションを使い、異種間即興を試みた革新的な記録の一つであり、繊細なパーカッションが鳥たちの反応を誘発、有機的な音塊が雲が積み重なり高密度で漂う名盤。



Edition of 250. Deluxe edition + insert. For eighteen months, between 1984 and 1985, Patrick Lysaght played flute, strings, and percussion inside the Rainforest Birdhouse at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His audience and collaborators: 150 birds of 42 species.

The result is one of the earliest and most radical documents of interspecies improvisation. Predating the current wave of sound ecology by decades, For The Birds sits comfortably alongside the biophonic research of Bernie Krause, the ornithological field recordings of Jean C. Roché, the Deep Listening practice of Pauline Oliveros, and the interspecies experiments of Jim Nollman. A missing link unearthed.

Lysaght didn't record the birds. He played with them. On Downstream, the talking drum establishes a backdrop while the birds take the lead. On Mourning Music, a threnody for his father, the birds seemed to be respectfully listening. On Light Sensitive, delicate percussion triggers avian response. Complex clouds of point notes build to rich density, following what the original notes call "the excitement of chance and the probability of experience."

Originally released in 1985 on Frank Records, Santa Fe. Now reissued with mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi .