Near an Open Window, 2004
CD recording, hi-fi equipment
During the presentation of ‘The Mirrored Catalogue d’Oiseaux’ recordings
were made of the mockingbirds’ song after they had been listening
to Messiaen’s recording for some time. In assimilating Messiaen’s
melodies into their repertoire their song will have changed slightly. ‘Near
an Open Window’ involves playing this recording of the mockingbirds’ modified
song in the vicinity of other birds, through a loudspeaker in a natural
setting such as a park and thereby influencing and changing the natural
song wherever it is heard. There has also been a public radio version of
this piece broadcasting the recordings with a request that the listener
place the speaker of the radio near a window.
Cityloop, Villa Galvani, Pordenone