While studying opportunities for kinetic connections with the site, the simplest reference was clear: bird song.
An instrument mimicking bird songs is prone to scaring the birds away and disrupts birds who mistake the
mimicking song as their own.Rather, the mechanism produces no tangible sound, save for a soft mechanical thud as the operable wood fins pivot to the percussive pattern of native bird songs.
In this example, the bird song of the Sedge Wren was translated into a simple persussive score, consisting of eighth notes and eighth rests.
The score begins at the top of the
structure, each fin weighted as a single “note”, pivoting independently of the others. As the score repeats down the structure, only fins represented in purple pivot, while the others rest.