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Clavier Des Oiseaux
Installation: 13 - 22 Apr 2007 --
Presented by: RobertJarvis
Public: Free
Musée Boucher-de-Perthes -- Festival de L'Oiseau
Abbeville -- France
http://www.festival-oiseau.asso.fr/new/fr/fiche_activite.asp?ID=53295&T=EXPOSITIONS

Une note, un chant, Robert Jarvis a conçu un clavier de piano peu ordinaire. En effet, en guise du do, ré, mi, fa, sol … un chant d’Avocette, de Bergeronnette, de Chardonneret décline ainsi l’alphabet jusqu’à la dernière touche du clavier....

Kyma user Robert Jarvis' 'Keybird' sound installation utilises a conventional piano keyboard of which every note is assigned to the call of a different bird. Visitors to the space encounter the keyboard and by pressing the different notes they trigger the different birdsongs and before long the room fills with moving sounds.

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