This Man Looked at Some Birds on a Wire and Saw Musical Notes. Listen to How It Sounds. [Hint: Amazing]

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Here’s the story of this video in Jarbas Agnelli’s own words:

“Reading the newspaper one morning, I saw this picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

This work was made over the original photo, un-retouched, published in one of the biggest Brazilian newspapers, “O Estado de São Paulo” on 27/aug/2009, and shot by Paulo Pinto (note: I just erased the birds for effect at the end, but didn’t change their positions at all. What would be the point?). This short video demonstrates my interpretation of the birds as notes.”

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We are reminded of a quote by Henry David Thoreau “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”

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Is that not what art is? And in the 21st century, a time of great change and turmoil, can we not just take what we see, and use it to connect with all of humankind?

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Music made with Logic. Video made with After Effects.

Jarbas Agnelli

And here is a live rendition of it being performed at the Awards Ceremony for the Top 25 YouTube Play Videos at the Guggenheim Museum.

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