Chicken Tune: Leaping AI Platforms

The opposite day, I wrote about utilizing Google’s Be taught About AI platform, with a concentrate on how chook songs influenced music composers. I took my notes from that Be taught About platform and moved a few of it into Google’s NotebookLM to do some additional inquiry (and to save lots of my notes, as Be taught About refreshes every time you exit). The consequence was a type of ancillary pocket book of concepts, as NotebookLM each gathered my analysis after which expanded on it a bit extra. I’m nonetheless intent to dive even additional and look into how you can compose music, with chook tune because the backdrop.

I like that in NotebookLM I may create a top level view of the principle parts of the assets and take a look at a timeline of discoveries and creation of music. For instance, I’m now curious to additional examine how David Rothenberg (I don’t know of him) created a jazz piece with a thrush.

Right here is the timeline:

This timeline focuses on using birdsong in Western music, because the offered sources are restricted of their scope relating to different musical traditions.

thirteenth Century:

• c. 1250: “Sumer is icumen in,” an English tune, turns into possible the earliest occasion of notated birdsong, that includes the cuckoo’s name.

14th Century:

• Composers like Jean Vaillant start quoting birdsong of their compositions, marking a rising curiosity in incorporating pure sounds into music.

seventeenth Century:

• 1650: Athanasius Kircher publishes Musurgia Universalis, an encyclopedia that features musical notation of a number of chook calls, demonstrating an early try at systematic transcription of birdsong.
• c. 1669: Heinrich Biber composes Sonata Representiva, that includes sections named after birds and animals. He makes use of string strategies to mimic chook sounds, together with the nightingale, cuckoo, and hen.

18th Century:

• c. 1715: John Walsh publishes Chicken Fancyer’s Delight, a set of quick musical phrases labeled with chook names supposed for educating caged birds to sing.

nineteenth Century:

• Composers like Beethoven, Delius, Handel, and Vivaldi prominently characteristic birdsong, notably the cuckoo and nightingale, of their works.

Twentieth Century:

• 1924: Cellist Beatrice Harrison performs a dwell BBC radio broadcast with nightingales, marking the primary exterior broadcast for the BBC and highlighting the potential for musical interaction between people and birds.
• 1923-1924: Ottorino Respighi composes Pines of Rome, probably the primary piece to include pre-recorded birdsong.
• Late Twenties: Respighi composes Gli Uccelli (“The Birds”), primarily based on Baroque items imitating numerous birds.
• Mid-Twentieth Century: Olivier Messiaen extensively makes use of birdsong in his compositions, together with Catalogue d’oiseaux and Réveil des oiseaux, pioneering an in depth strategy to integrating birdsong into music.
• Nineteen Sixties-Nineteen Seventies: Fashionable music bands like Pink Floyd and singers like Kate Bush start incorporating birdsong sound results into their albums.

twenty first Century:

• 2000: Jazz musician David Rothenberg improvises a duet with a laughing thrush, exploring the musical connection between people and birds and difficult the standard definition of music.
• 2003: Jonathan Harvey’s Chicken Concerto with Piano Tune premieres, using slowed-down recordings of American West Coast chook songs to disclose their intricate musicality.
• 2017: Hollis Taylor publishes a ebook arguing that the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird are music, utilizing musical transcriptions and area recordings to help her declare.

After all, I needed to attempt the AI Podcast creator, however since I’ve so many sources and notes, the audio is fairly lengthy (about quarter-hour).

Hear, in case you are curious.

My subsequent step is a little bit of remix of these voices. That might be coming quickly.

Peace (in explorations),
Kevin