Andrew Bird's sonic arboretum reminds me of the natural music we are losing

The music of the fields and the woodlands, the lapwings and bunting, is giving way to the sounds of the city, the new housing estates, the motorwaysIn Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art this December, there will sprout up a peculiar kind of forest: 50 horned speakers, each standing between 19 and 26in high across the atrium, their bells upturned like blackbird mouths. This "sonic arboretum" is a project dreamed up by the musician Andrew Bird and the sculptor and instrument-maker Ian Schneller,...

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