"Nightingale Bird Song" by Huang Yanying

The project brief called for a representation of the concept of a bird. What better representation of a bird than its song? I screen captured the music visualization of a nightingale song at regular time intervals. The resultant shapes of the music visualization are then traced and lasercut onto clear acrylic. Each shape represents a single moment in the nightingale song. All the pieces are arranged together in their time sequence. The final assembled form is a physical translation of what is an aural experience of a nightingale. The moment of a nightingale in full song frozen in a crystalline form.

Bird song sound sample: Nightingale song 2.wav

Source: The Free Sound Project http://www.freesound.org/

Credit: User "Reinsamba", Germany

Song Length: 2 min 32 sec