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Marcus Coates - Dawn Chorus May 10th
& 11th, 17th & 18th, 24th & 25th.
Dawn Chorus is an exhibition comprising films of 17 singers that recreate birdsong in their ‘natural habitats'. The individuals sing from various situations such as an underground car-park, an osteopathic clinic and a shed. Filmed in Bristol, the project is as much a portrait of British society and idiosyncrasy as it is of our natural world. Multiple microphones were placed around woodland to record birdsong at dawn over a two week period in Northumberland. From this multi-track recording each song was slowed down up to 16 times, and each human participant was filmed mimicking this slowed-down birdsong. The resulting video footage was then speeded up, returning the bird mimicry into its ‘real' register. The speeding up of the film both translates the human voice into bird song, and emphasises unconscious gestures that are remarkably similar to the physical behaviour of specific birds; a grandfather becomes a pheasant, teachers in a staffroom transform into chiffchaffs, robins and blue tits and an office worker metamorphoses into a wren.
Yn arddangos yn The Last Gallery ar benwythnosau drwy gydol Mai 2008 - 10yb tan 6yh Arddangosfa
o ffilmiau o 17 canwr yn ailgreu sain adar yn canu yn eu cynefin naturiol
yw ‘Dawn Chorus’. Canai’r unigolion o sefyllfaoedd
amrywiol fel maes parcio tanddaearol, mewn clinig llawdriniwr ac mewn
sied. Cafodd
meicroffonau eu lleoli mewn coedwigoedd er mwyn recordio adar yn canu
gyda’r wawr dros gyfnod o pythefnos yn Northumberland. O’r
recordiad aml-drac yma, arafwyd pob can hyd at 16 o weithiau a ffilmiwyd
pob cyfranydd yn dynwaredu hyn. Cyflymwyd y fideo a dychwelyd dynwarediad
yr adar i’w cofrestr ‘cywir’.
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