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Music from the birds

Posted at 1:26 PM on September 16, 2009 by Alison Young
Filed under: Fun finds

It wasn't Hitchcock Brazilian composer Jarbas Agnelli was thinking when he saw this picture in a newspaper. It was a stave and the melodies and harmonies the birds had "written." The composer promises no photoshop was needed!

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

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