Red-backed Fairy-wren

"Call begins with squeaks so high and weak that they would only be heard when very close, followed by a trill beginning with high squeaky notes, usually switching to lower, louder rattling sounds. Morcombe and Stewart." This piece is part of a project initiated by artist Alison Clouston and musician Boyd. It included the commissioning of musical bird 'calls' from 153 musicians: one for each of the birds recorded in the Bimblebox reserve in the period 2003-2013. The reserve is now under the threat of erasure by coal mining. Each contributor essayed an image of a specific bird, without necessarily using any recordings of the bird, rather primarily relying on ornithological text descriptions of it. The musical bird calls formed part of a touring exhibition/installation. The piece is also published online: http://burragorang.org/coalface2014/153-Musicians5.php (number 80 under "Treecreepers"). The piece was also part of an acousmatic performance accompanied by Sandy Evans (saxophone) as part of an austraLYSIS concert at the Sydney Conservatorium on 9th November 2014 (http://www.australysis.com/Resources/ConaLYSpgnotes2014HSv4.pdf).