Songs from the Sky

Site sound recordings, electropolished marine grade stainless steel sound notes, hand cut clear tubing, stainless steel cable, corten frames Sound recordings of birdsongs heard onsite at Brick Bay such as those of the Fantail, Yellowhead, Tui, etc., have been gathered and transcribed into sound notes and laser cut into electropolished stainless steel pieces. These are attached to steel wires threaded with hand cut clear tubing. Each sound note visually encapsulates the sound and duration of a particular moment in the bird song with the silences between one sound and the next represented by the lines created by the threaded wires. The sound notes have been sequenced a like a musical score with each birdsong broken up into timed sections. The artwork is suspended high in the Kahikatea trees.