As a part of Our Liverpool Landscape: From Turner to Today, bird sheet music will curiously captures avian activity: cawing cacophonies, dulcet timbre, and productive pooh will be collected and collated into a sounding celebration of our feathered friends!
Garden birds, sea birds, birds of prey, water birds, shore birds, field birds, feral birds, and woodland birds, all feed and fly in Liverpool; enriching our environment.
Musical Score Image
The large bird sheet score stretched out to record the dawn chorus
© Kerry Morrison
Bird Sheet Music will seek to harnesses some of their fundamental doings. Bird Sheet Music, a collaborative composition, takes - by chance – nature’s calls and represents what comes naturally.
I will be laying blank score - on a scale of great magnitude - underneath places where birds roost and feed. As the birds go about their daily business, droppings will fall onto the score below. Each splat on the score will form a musical note, a cache of pooh, an embellished score: bird shit music.
If you know of any places in Everton, Princes of Springfield parks where birds roost please do let me know below or tweet me @kerrymmorrison
Simultaneously, sound artist, Helmut Lemke, will record bird ‘song’, together with ambient nature and city sounds.
Composer, Jon Hering, will translate the visual score into notation that can be handled, read, and performed.
Bird sheet music is just one project happening as a part of Our Liverpool Landscape: From Turner to Today; a series of outdoor events linked to Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Turner Monet Twombly.