Bird Songs by ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU
ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU is a band of many voices and sounds. The music collective was founded in 2015 and consists of around 60 sound lovers and musicians from all over the world. It is a fluid body of sound, sometimes lively and buzzing, sometimes quiet and in search of tiny auditory details.
In April 2024 our collective was invited by DAWN CHORUS to produce songs and soundscapes based on collected birdcalls.
DAWN CHORUS is a citizen science and art project that invites people around the world to experience the dawn chorus of birds, record it, and share their own audio files online.
The project emerged from the stillness of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was initiated by the Natural History Museum of Bavaria together with the BIOTOPIA Lab and the Stiftung Kunst und Natur, with support from the Max Planck Society.
Just as the stillness of that time was central to the DAWN CHORUS project, it also played a key role for the international collective ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU. In 2020, the artists launched the episodic album Solange Bunte Balken Durchlaufen—an album that takes time to embrace the varied tempos and needs of uncertain times.
BIRD SONGS includes six tracks, each of which uses a specific recording from the Dawn Chorus archive as the starting point for a musical journey.
As soon as you enter the numbers in DAWN CHORUS' archive, you can listen to the original recordings:
https://dawn-chorus.org/
Tracklist
| 1. | early BIRD SONG 9811362 | 5:02 |
| 2. | BIRD SONG 9811388 | 1:59 |
| 3. | BIRD SONG 9813563 | 2:40 |
| 4. | BIRD SONG 19390165 | 1:41 |
| 5. | BIRD SONG 22170617 | 2:41 |
| 6. | late BIRD SONG 9811362 | 3:07 |
Credits
ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU artists and many more sound lovers, artists ***:
Ruslan Boyarin (field recordings), Klaus Erika Dietl (oscillator, bass synthesizer), Thomas Glatz (guitar), Nicolai Herrmann (voice loop), Stephanie Müller (field recordings, percussion, production), Mimosa Pale (singing saw), Laura Theis (text, vocals), Karin Weixler (noise), Aimée (modular synthesizer environment), Thomas Glatz (electric guitar, theremin, field recordings, production), Andrea Lesjak (glass harp), Gemma Meulendijks (cello), Stephanie Müller (sounds), Mucho Pitchu (bass clarinet), Dominic Caudr (sounds), Thomas Glatz (field recordings, sound shaping, voice, production), Helena Hartmann (vocals), Jo (sounds), Anton Kaun (noise), Andrea Lesjak (glass harp), Deidra Mesayu (hydrophone recordings), Gemma Meulendijks (cello, vocals), Mucho Pitchu (bass clarinet), Dominic Caudr (strings), Klaus Erika Dietl (bass synthesizer, percussion), Stephanie Müller (production), Miu Terada (sounds), Carla Zuccon (field recordings, voice bubbles), Miro Craemer (percussion), Klaus Erika Dietl (oscillator, bass synthesizer), Rebecca Doubledecka (field recordings), Karine Legrand (vocals), Selina Losa (field recordings), Stephanie Müller (air pump, vocals, production), Rym Nadem (vocals), Mimosa Pale (singing saw), Diet Rahlfs (water recordings), Bernhart Schwenk (percussion)
