Mockingbird Suite by David Brown

Over the years I have accumulated a sizable collection of bird calls, mostly as gifts. I used them as source material for this suite composed in 1999 and inspired by the bird call jams at the house of Ruth McGurk.

David Brown received his MFA in Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, California where he studied composition with Anthony Braxton & Kenneth Gaburo and music & information theory with David Rosenboom. His compositions & sound designs combine found sounds with acoustic and electronic instruments to create sound collages of orchestral density.