His daughter Angela Birdsong said on Tuesday that the cause was not certain, but that Mr. Birdsong had suffered several strokes in the past and had congestive heart failure.
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Both the chorus and Clytemnestra compare Cassandra's lament to birdsong.
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A diffuse, melodic fog of birdsong hung over the scene.
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Gare de l'Est was so deserted that birdsong could be heard.
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Faint birdsong is drowned out by the drone of the engine.
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Outside, birdsong competes with the drone of North Korean loudspeakers blaring propaganda.
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Even the school security guard (Mary Birdsong) gets a chance to shine.
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I left them behind and discovered something lovely: Birdsong was everywhere. video
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Birdsong and a plunking guitar played on a stereo in the corner.
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It's filled with googly-eyed rabbits, sheepish owls, eager squirrels and birdsong.
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At around 5am the Maasai "Wildlife Warriors" rise to birdsong, nature's alarm clock.
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The riverbank is punctuated with corrugated-iron towers, which emit birdsong from loudspeakers.
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The wind in the trees and the hushed birdsong are more than enough.
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For almost two minutes, the only sound was birdsong from an open window.
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The sound of birdsong playing as guests waited for the show to start.
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Talking to children about race forces adults to assess their own values, Birdsong says.
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Maremma's nature preserve, rife with hiking trails, birdsong and wildlife, made for purifying afternoons.
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We heard the intricacies of life — the creaking of trees, the cacophony of birdsong.
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My hospice patients were dying, but they still longed for fresh air and birdsong.
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"What really triggered it was this idea of light and birdsong," Ms. Bush said.
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Yes, there was birdsong, yes, I saw some lovely birds nesting and having babies.
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That is why birdsong fills the air during the spring and summer breeding season.
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Gare de l'Est was so empty that birdsong could be heard in the main concourse.
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Mr. Birdsong released a handful of solo albums, among them "What It Is" (19593), "Super Natural" (1973) and "Edwin Birdsong" (1979), but they achieved only limited success, and he turned to working as a sought-after session musician and producer for better-known acts.
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I was sitting on our cantilevered terrace, listening to birdsong and the river flowing below me.
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" The girl mimicked dozens of voices, mindless and repetitive as birdsong: "It's not really a baby.
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Three different melodies accompany the trilling birdsong, which can play on the hour or on demand.
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Tree pangolins scaled giant trunks, forest elephants trundled safely along, tropical birdsong wafted on the breeze.
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The only sounds in the poppy field are birdsong and the wind rustling the nearby trees.
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Some of these came through Birdsong, his Brooklyn-based anti-racist, queer-positive collective and micropress.
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On impulse, I stopped and cut the motor; only the symphony of birdsong filled my ears.
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Ms. Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong (cue "Dreamgirls"), and Ms. Ross now had top billing.
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Previous research has found that listening to birdsong contributes to perceived attention restoration and stress recovery.
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Last year, he collaborated on a study with his wife, Rindy Anderson, a biologist who studies birdsong.
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A recent study found that birdsong is genetic in flycatchers , and could be a mechanism for speciation.
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The human connection: Scientists use birdsong — which is complex and learned — as a proxy for human language.
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It doesn't blow out fine perfumes, it doesn't steam or mist you, and it doesn't play birdsong.
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The air-conditioning was cold; I turned it off, opened the windows, and birdsong filled the room.
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According to a paper published Monday in Current Biology, this goofball boasts the loudest birdsong ever recorded.
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Perhaps it's the soundscape, since water and, especially, birdsong have been proven to improve mood and alertness.
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Usually, Krause hears the rustling of leaves, wind sweeping through the grass, and—before the drought—birdsong.
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Findings from the team's report, published on the website bioRxiv: The team: Timothy Gentner and his students at UCSD, with the help of Argentinian birdsong expert Ezequiel Arneodo, say they've successfully decoded "realistic synthetic birdsong directly from neural activity" of the zebra finch; a small, orange-beaked bird.
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Birdsong is the bane of your life right now because all noise basically sounds like a text notification.
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The ambient sounds of nature—birdsong and wind—filled the theater, and La Barbara, though desperate, grew quiet.
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There's the haze of barbecue smoke and the smell of mulch and the sounds of birdsong and drums.
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Besides clanging techno, I'd have to say the noise I associate with Bloc weekenders the most is birdsong.
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The paper itself seems dry, until it becomes clear that he's trying to apply music theory to birdsong.
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Birds such as blackcaps and warblers are often lured into traps by birdsong recordings, flying straight into nets.
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We see a planet full of green leaves and water, but silent of birdsong and totally without animals.
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As the mood lighting changed from fuchsia to gold, hidden speakers piped in birdsong and gentle piano music.
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At the Zona Económica Especial (ZEE), a Manhattan-sized plot near Luanda, Angola's capital, the only sound is birdsong.
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A neural net trained to recognize only canaries isn't of any use in recognizing, say, birdsong or human speech.
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The songs aren't all a cappella; sometimes there's an acoustic guitar or birdsong in the background. Nonesuch. Sept. 21.
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Utopia opens with gentle birdsong and an unwinding synth scrawl that sounds like an animal darting from the speakers.
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Now, research published Wednesday in Nature sheds light on the elusive dawn of birdsong in the age of the dinosaurs.
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Across 36 minutes, the record crackles, moans, and shivers with the sounds of shattering ice, barking sea lions, and birdsong.
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He also wants to compare the quality of birdsong data gathered by recorders on the ground, to that of drones.
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Abandoned homes ravaged by weather and creeping vines stand silent but for the surf, the whine of mosquitos, and birdsong.
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At a poignant vigil on Thursday, William read a piece by the author of the WWI novel Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks.
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The location (upstate New York, in reality) is perfect, and the movie's sound brings out all its birdsong and water.
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"Nobody ever saw the doors open," she explained, nodding toward the open entryway, as birdsong and a breeze flowed in.
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Many of the birds are captured in the wild in Guyana, experts said, lured into traps with birdsong and seeds.
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Apart from the captain's noon-day message, PA announcements are a rarity, and melodious birdsong plays in all the restrooms.
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But if the phone heard only birdsong and the laptop heard a crowd of voices, that would be a no go.
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We had been walking through the woods that surround the institute, listening to the vibrant May birdsong, a Babel of voices.
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The cacophony of friends chatting and children laughing had been replaced by birdsong and the rustle of wind through the trees.
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When films like Birdsong (2008) and Story of My Death are so mesmerizing and atmospheric though, such critical reception melts away.
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Mr. Birdsong worked with Stevie Wonder and was a frequent collaborator with Roy Ayers, the jazz, funk and soul vibraphone player.
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Until a few years ago, assessing the amplitude, or loudness, of birdsong required an unusual amount of devotion and tech-savvy.
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And the Manhattanville College campus, with its stone buildings, forested patches and birdsong, was emptied of students and filled with peace.
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I'd been told that birdsong—a lot of it, at any rate—is piped in through speakers hidden in the greenery.
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Hand in hand, we savored birdsong and breathed in the open sky from a bench tucked among the trees and roses.
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Birdsong remembers learning about the black American experience as one defined by the tragedy of slavery, and feeling limited as a child.
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It makes absolutely no difference which sound I set it to, I've tried everything: my favorite song, birdsong, a relatively neutral ringing.
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City-dwellers often yearn for an escape to the countryside, the rolling hills, the birdsong... Well, yesterday the countryside came to them.
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The area had the greenery and birdsong of much of New Jersey or Westchester County, but was smack in his native borough.
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Rushing to the serenity shop And fighting and hiding and crying and eating in our cars with our volume pumped against the birdsong.
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In William Gibson's most recent novel, The Peripheral, there's a pair of bodyguards who talk to one another using what sounds like birdsong.
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The evening tranquillity in the north-west, amid the greenery and the birdsong, feels much like the morning peace in the south-east.
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However, instead of another distraught hymn warbled by frontman Thom Yorke, the band has released a literal birdsong, sung by an animated bird.
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Inside the 18th-century farmhouse, there's a wine cellar, a whisky library and a reading room with books on cooking, wildflowers and birdsong.
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These towns are commutable — if you don't mind a commute of more than an hour — and offer plenty of birdsong out your window.
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But any birdsong has to compete with the noise of the traffic from Highway 24 that runs along one side of the tract.
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"Canyons," which takes inspiration from the rock formations, birdsong, and night sky of Utah, has become a cult work of twentieth-century music.
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Birdsong, gentle music, or even a song from your own music collection could be considered a better alternative, especially if the sound increases gradually.
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However, instead of another distraught hymn warbled by frontman Thom Yorke, the band has released literal birdsong,... Always put your money on the bastards.
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The echoing birdsong returns every so often, alternating with rhythmically ripe music by the Belgian band Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung and the Moscow Art Trio.
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Guests have the chance to stay in direct contact with nature at all times, waking up and falling asleep to the sound of birdsong.
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This very public thawing of their relationship proved an irresistible attraction at Augusta National, where, strangely, birdsong is heard but birds are rarely seen.
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Here at the monastery, though, on this pleasant spring day, birdsong ricocheted off the cliffs and the only thing to explode were the poppies.
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The woman had her windows cracked and when the phone rang the sound passed out into the yard like the trilling of Max's birdsong.
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The album is spacious, filled with flutes, choirs, field recordings of birdsong—sounds that describe a place and also a peace-seeking state of mind.
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So I was happy to find James Sturm's "Birdsong," a gorgeous wordless book with a snappy mood that seems to explicitly invite out-loud storytelling.
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More recently, that anti-rational quality of birdsong has become attractive to composers looking for ways to express their unease with the mechanized modern world.
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There was birdsong in the air, and the gentle lapping of the waves, but there was no mistaking this for a camp in the Adirondacks.
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Turn off Main Street, and you'll quickly find yourself in one of several neighborhoods where birdsong replaces traffic noise and bunnies hop along the paths.
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The next morning, the city was quiet except for a chorus of birdsong that made me feel like I had stepped into a fairy tale.
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Moreover, where Quixotic (2006), Birdsong, and Story of My Death are puckish, The Death of Louis XIV is sober with just a whiff of irony.
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The Boulder players, for instance, offered a birdsong-theme musical hike through Rock Creek Park, as well as the chamber performances under the cherry trees.
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DOLEV, West Bank (Reuters) - Overlooking picturesque villages, the rental property listed on Airbnb is nestled in what seems like a peaceful setting of birdsong and sunshine.
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"Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War," Sebastian Faulks I never quite understood World War I in the way that I've understood other 20th-century wars.
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Involuntary attention is driven more by interesting stimuli in the environment — birdsong, say, or the way leaves flutter gently on their branches in a soft breeze.
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She heard the clear notes of the warbler's birdsong as she tinged its crown and nape in green, then painted delicate white lines on its wings.
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Attacking LFW also revealed a "bias" against an industry that largely employs and caters to women, said Sophie Slater, co-founder of fashion social enterprise Birdsong.
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Attacking LFW also revealed a "bias" against an industry that largely employs and caters to women, said Sophie Slater, co-founder of fashion social enterprise Birdsong.
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The triumph of his birdsong day — which in its scope, scale and imagination is the sort of project by which festivals are judged — can only be redemptive.
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He and his friends didn't even flinch when the shots echoed around them, as if the sounds were as normal as the birdsong of Rio's great kiskadees.
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Why do I so often behave as though there will be unlimited days to sit quietly with my beloveds, listening to birdsong and wind in the pines?
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And there are five new one-star restaurants in the Bay Area: Madcap, Birdsong, Nico, Protégé and Ms. Crenn's jewel box of a wine bar, Bar Crenn.
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It was as if I had been blindfolded and led to a park bench, only to be judged on how strongly I was reacting to the birdsong.
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How do you start the day with smiles and birdsong and a piping hot cup of coffee and not, you know, curse words and five alarm snoozes?
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Over the course of 20 minutes, while I stood hypnotized by birdsong, the sun came out and burned away the clouds, revealing the full panorama of mountains.
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But it would be a mistake to dismiss this writer as only a psalmist of birdsong and singing creek and the gentle, patient wisdom of postal workers.
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" Lumley has imagined a place "where the only sounds will be birdsong and bees buzzing and the wind in the trees, and, below, the steady rush of water.
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A synth pad that goes on for 30 minutes and in the meantime throw in some birdsong, recordings of people's conversations at a bar, and stuff like that.
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Yet spend too much time chopping wood and planting beans, and his inspiration will dwindle, the color seeping out of the digital landscape and the birdsong becoming quiet.
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Made in collaboration with the Venezuelan D.J. Arca, it was suffused with birdsong, loose melodies and the female flutists, all Icelandic musicians, who followed her to the Shed.
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I'd been told that the recorded birdsong played on a loop, and so for a few minutes I listened intently, but I didn't have the ear for it.
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With one ear on your pillow you check the number of likes your latest Facebook post has harvested, the Retweets of your latest birdsong, and then onto the Inbox.
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It is summer in Minnesota as I write this: four blessed weeks of birdsong and fireflies made all the more beautiful by the fact that it will not last.
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Power tools take on an unexpected feminine zest, leaving perfect circles wherever they go, everything a potential orifice to peek and reach through, often to the tune of birdsong.
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The birdsong of earlier had hushed, but there was new magic — a riot of fireflies, cavorting in what felt like a show for just for the guards and me.
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Now 84, he was gregarious and loquacious in an interview: A single question elicited a 20-minute response that invoked Beethoven, Albanian funeral laments, birdsong and Donald J. Trump.
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Mechelli recently published research which suggests that exposure to trees, the sky, and birdsong in cities is beneficial to mental health, but adds that researchers don't exactly know why.
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"Hurricane and cotton is like oil and water — it just doesn't mix at all," said William Birdsong, an agronomist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and Auburn University in Headland.
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I browse around for a while and also find Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks, whose book Birdsong is one of my favorite novels of all time.
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But on a recent sparkling autumn afternoon only a trickle of visitors had come to enjoy the abundant birdsong, the scent of pines and the rustle of falling ginkgo leaves.
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Examples include Hey Girls, which donates sanitary products to women from low income families for every one it sells, and Birdsong, which markets ethically made clothes bearing images of women.
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Mixed with the whoosh of traffic from a nearby street and the occasional rumble from the Kelly monument, the artificiality of the human-voiced birdsong makes for a wily intervention.
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Each left hand page of "Birdsong" is blank white with a leafy decorated margin, as if to remind children to provide their own words for what's happening on the right.
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When we were nearly to the top (or so I kept telling myself), a sonic boom rippled through the air, momentarily interrupting the birdsong echoing off the canyon's upper reaches.
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What it is doing, though, is exploring how short bursts of encoded sound (that do actually sound like robotic birdsong — hence the company's name) can transfer data from machine to machine.
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They were able to do this using very fast software that could take a birdsong as input, distort it, and then play it back to the bird in almost real time.
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The robot, which was skilled enough to autonomously move out of the way of shoppers and avoid unexpected obstacles in the aisles, alerted people to its presence with soft birdsong chirps.
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Perhaps this is why birdsong sounds so sweet to the human ear; perhaps this is the reason songbirds have played such a frequent muse to poets writing verse throughout the centuries.
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Though daylight had hardly made a mark, they'd missed the beginning of the Dawn Chorus — the symphony of birdsong that takes advantage of the early morning's optimal conditions for sound travel.
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The sound of rushing cars broke the birdsong, and I saw the general's house standing before me: 18913 Frognal Road, an elegant three-story brick villa adorned with tall French windows.
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As a little boy, he makes himself expert at imitating birdsong and keeps a seal skull and other artifacts in the malodorous "Teedie Roosevelt Museum of Natural History" in his bedroom.
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This sunset, this light glinting on the water, this birdsong at dawn, this sweet breeze, this soft rain from the heavens — all seen and felt as if for the last time.
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Ms. Baganova's "Maple Garden," created for the American Dance Festival's International Choreographers program in 1999, opens with the sound of hooting birdsong and a woman suspended in midair, a lantern in hand.
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Laws and regulations governing blind trusts vary greatly by state, and 29 states do not address them at all, according to Nicholas Birdsong, a researcher with the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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"It's so idyllic," she says of the springtime scene: In this quiet corner, the incessant hum of central London traffic is eclipsed — almost — by birdsong and bell chimes from St. Marylebone Church.
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The main event of "Caramoor Takes Wing," a celebration of birdsong at the lively Caramoor festival in Katonah, N.Y., was this pianist's brilliant performance of Messiaen's complete "Catalogue d'Oiseaux" ("Catalog of Birds").
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Some might also think of birdsong and insects, or summon thoughts of thick foliage in the understory, the crunch of leaves or pine needles underfoot, or overgrown trails meandering into the thicket.
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A far cry from alarm clocks of yore, the options are really quite pleasant, from birdsong to gentle piano, all of which gradually build in volume for a more civilised wake-up experience.
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His music also features steel drums, trilling birdsong and pan flutes — touches that hew closer to New Age than the party-ready dubstep or electro-house that built the American E.D.M. audience this decade.
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According to McCarthy, the first approach has ended in failure and the latter creates a problematic commodification of nature — and in any case, how do we value birdsong or the unfurling of spring flowers?
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For this final segment, a new palette of nature sounds, including trills of birdsong, began to work their way into the musical composition, feeling a bit like a call for an escape to nature.
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One morning when they played last month, Phelps and Hackett had the course to themselves, and the only noise competing with the birdsong was the country and hip-hop music emanating from their cart.
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"We were at the most inopportune time for a storm to hit us, when cotton is being defoliated and the fibers are exposed on the plant and harvest has begun," said Birdsong, the Alabama agronomist.
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In birdsong you just hear I'm hungry or Fuck me , everything threaded with the sound of his voice you core out your eardrums to escape and you do for a while until they grow back.
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"There is no magical age," says Birdsong, who once introduced her two-year-old daughter to the internment of Japanese Americans using a book about a friendship between a Japanese-American girl and white American girl.
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Employing unconventional time and rhythm, and influenced by birdsong (Messiaen was an avid ornithologist), the piece conveys a sense of disorientation and anxiety, a reflection of life during wartime as well as the overarching apocalyptic theme.
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Edwin Birdsong, a keyboard player and producer whose blend of funk, jazz and disco music from the 1970s and ′80s developed a cult following and was sampled by a later generation of artists, died on Jan.
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Oh, and kids aren't the only ones who get a boost from birdsong and long arboreal strolls: It's a well-established fact that spending time in nature boosts overall health, no matter how old you are.
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The Cox Rathvon machine produced its usual cornucopia of cleverness and subtle misdirection, so it was a good enough fight for a lovely little bit of writing to — dare I dream — herald birdsong, warmth and Spring.
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Including tracks from Kelela, Arca, and supplemented by birdsong (what did you expect really), the mix comes in at around 40 minutes, and it's great to work, walk, or just have a nice lie down to.
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And yet, there was plenty—the music fell away as the final Scrapper collapsed in a shower of bright white sparks, and then there was just the bubbling of the water, and the most fantastic birdsong.
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It's no wonder that birdsong should be central to the work of John Luther Adams, a composer and an environmental activist whose music often draws inspiration from the unspoiled Arctic wilderness that he has fought to preserve.
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He was Santa Claus and the mailman and a teen-ager driving tons of munitions through a monsoon-slick road in early February with rat-a-tat sniper fire in the distant hills as normal as birdsong.
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Nick Birdsong at the Sporting News picks No. 1 Villanova, No. 2 Duke and No. 3 Michigan to make the Final Four, and then has No. 4 Arizona beating all of them, thanks to freshman Deandre Ayton.
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But while it wears its opulence gracefully, its recent stint as a witch school — and all the murders, resurrections and tongue removals that entailed — gave it a sinister undertow even on a spring morning full of birdsong.
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"Supreme Glamour" includes costumes after Ms. Ross left the group in 1970, and it reverted to the original name with Ms. Wilson, Ms. Birdsong, Jean Terrell and a revolving door of replacements, but most are less memorable.
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Sound maps of New York (Images by Chatty Maps)The urban aural landscape has a huge impact on our lives—from the roar of traffic and clatter of jackhammer, to the groove of music and lullaby of birdsong.
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The same can be said of peoples of all continents who celebrate the occasional fountainal intrusion, from those who use bidets complete with birdsong to hide their doings to those with a simple hose next to the can.
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"Body cameras should be a tool to make law enforcement more transparent and accountable," Susanna Birdsong, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina, said in a statement on the day the bill was signed.
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When the January desert heat proved enervating, we returned to our inn, De Bergkant Lodge, built in 1858 for a newlywed couple, one of 14 local buildings declared historic monuments, and swam laps to the sound of birdsong.
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Instead, they range from the whimsical (a chandelier by Cerith Wyn Evans that flickers in time to birdsong) to the ominous (wax heads of sinister old men by Thomas Schütte), leaving space along the way for sparkles of humor.
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And the borders of gender therefore become hazily obscured too: in "Birdsong" (2018) a person with muscular legs that transmute into stiletto heels and assertive breasts uses (her/his?) penis to enter a partner whose body is similarly shaped.
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A decade later, by which point he had a young family, an illness prevented him from working and paying the bills; what saved him was early-morning birdsong that inspired a grant-funded project to record the Dawn Chorus.
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Many of these speak of simple pleasures — a garden, birdsong, the splash of cold water on a work-grimed face — and the best have an enigmatic stillness that is far removed from the ideological din of the political poems.
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We've already seen the downside of expansive copyright rules online, with automated systems accidentally flagging white noise or birdsong as infringement, viral videos getting pulled offline for using audio clips without permission, and scammers using copyright strikes to extort YouTubers.
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Related: Sail Away to a Tropical VR Island in this Supernatural Music Video Danny Trejo Gets Massaged by Naked Mole Rats in Cool 3D World's First Music Video [Premiere] Glowing LED Lights Dance to Birdsong in This Dreamlike Music Video
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There are mystically blissful episodes, like the mostly tranquil sixth movement, "Garden of Love's Sleep," in which the orchestra plays the recurring love theme in glowing strings and dense yet transparent chords, as the piano offers strands of delicate idealized birdsong.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH AT 21 MINUTES 28 SECONDS Messiaen, the modern master of birdsong, made one of his most significant responses to the natural world with "Catalogue d'Oiseaux," two and a half hours teasing out the modernism inherent in animal noises.
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She wrote a set of exquisitely Brahmsian variations for flute and quartet; impressionistic piano miniatures based on her transcriptions of birdsong; and a densely chromatic string quartet pointing toward modernist developments that, as an unabashed musical conservative, she otherwise never embraced.
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Since the very beginning of her work as an artist and composer, when Ono, still a student at Sarah Lawrence College, sought a way to notate birdsong, references to vivid natural forces and phenomena have figured prominently in her art and music.
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Morning bells, smothered by mist and birdsong; evening bells, mellow as the low light that caresses hills, cattle and trees; giddy carillons of change-ringing that mark victories, coronations and weddings, and the slow boom of majestic timekeepers and signallers of death.
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Recent studies have found that listening to birdsong makes us smarter and more relaxed, that a forest walk can ward off depression and improve short-term memory, and that time spent in woodland can boost the immune system and reduce blood pressure.
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Inside a room filled with recordings of birdsong, Méndez and De León examined a display case holding a trio of preserved elegant trogons, small red-bellied birds from Mexico and Central America; each was lying on its back, its feet strung together.
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As the musicologist Elizabeth Eva Leach has shown, birdsong was often held up by music theorists in the Middle Ages as a clear example of nonmusic, because, however pleasing to the ear, it lacked the harmonious ratios underpinning music created by rational humans.
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Droz, an 18th century watchmaker and automaton manufacturer, was famous for his miraculous contraptions, including a Draughtsman and Writer, two human-shaped robots that could draw and write, along with his beautiful singing birds that used tiny pipes and bellows to recreate birdsong.
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The howler monkeys suddenly roar like revving motorcycles; insects buzz like TV static; the Zabalo babbles as if the ear is just above its surface; and birdsong cackles, shimmers tambourine-like, and pops like a toddler imitating a machine gun — pyoo-pyoo-pyoo!
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These include a climactic entrance for the Olympian gods, who mingle like celebrity guests at a cocktail party, and — best of all — the first, full-throated example of the birdsong in which cast members meld their voices into a music beyond harmony.
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That Mr. Cohen repeatedly refers to natural elements (birdsong, breezes, sea and sky) is entirely fitting, given that the subject is the loss of a primary figure, something so elemental in the life cycle of humans: the bond between parent and child.
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While Birdsong, an activist based in Oakland, California, who focuses on family, race, children and poverty, may spend more time than the average parent thinking about these issues, she's not alone in searching for tools and guidance to help young people understand race and oppression.
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Among the influential scientists who have died prematurely in the past two years are David Flockhart, who helped create the field of personalised medicine; Yoshiki Sasai, a prominent stem-cell biologist; and Allison Doupe, a neurobiologist who studied birdsong as a model for human language.
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A chorus of birdsong at dawn underlies each track on the new album Dawn Chorus from producer and multi-instrumentalist Hidden Orchestra (aka Joe Acheson along with his live band Poppy Ackroyd on piano and violin, with Tim Lane and Jamie Graham on drums).
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"I have thought of spring birdsong as blossom in sound," he writes, and later rhapsodizes about the mesmerizing swaths of bluebells in English woodlands — a hundred thousand flowers growing so close together that they are no longer individual plants but an ocean of blue.
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Firle Journal FIRLE, England — With birdsong in the air and a weak winter sun shining on the walled garden of an elegant farmhouse in southern England, things are going well for the film crew of "Countryfile," a British television show that focuses on rural issues.
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Bermudez, who's also known as Golden Eagle, has excavated the property so deeply over the past 50 years that it's become an obstacle course of limestone, filled with holes the size of your foot — bumpy as the surface of the moon, but warm and musical with birdsong.
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"Body cameras should be a tool to make law enforcement more transparent and accountable to the communities they serve, but this shameful law will make it nearly impossible to achieve those goals," Susanna Birdsong, policy counsel for the ACLU of North Carolina, said in a statement.
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In addition to his daughter Angela, he is survived by five other daughters, Linda Owens and Robin, Tia, Shebibah and Candice Birdsong; three sons, Sterling, Singh and Anthony; three sisters, Linda Ticer, Elzater Williams and Lemonia Golden; a brother, Sheldon; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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Up I head to a waiting area that feels like a yoga studio, with rattan matting on the floor, semi-open walls with glimpses of palm thatch, a little reception desk, and an impressive amount of birdsong for an area whose rice fields are rapidly turning to villas.
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Cyril de Commarque, Working sketch for Fluxland, 2016, courtesy of the artist As well as hosting a debate, the boat will be open to the public, who will be able to board it when it moors along the river, look inside, and enjoy its immersive, birdsong-filled environment.
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Forest silence is a particular sort of sound, in that it sounds like death and living at the same time—the faraway howls, crunching leaves, chirping insects, and birdsong all swirl and fade into a kind of white noise that stops feeling like noise at all once you've grown into it.
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We hung out until the light started leaking through the Venetian blinds and the sound of birdsong reminded us that the kids would be up within an hour or two, and someone (please God not me) would have to drop the older two to soccer practice and piano lessons, respectively.
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Credits: Model: Rebecca M Costume design: Heather Long Assistants: Yan Taylor, Jeremie McRoberts, Ian McRoberts Light painting: Yan Taylor Logistics: Ian McRoberts Related: Long Exposure Photos Turn Trains into Electric Ghosts Glowing LED Lights Dance to Birdsong in This Dreamlike Music Video Antique Light Art Brings the Northern Lights Indoors
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The mammoth "Forest, Subsists as a Tomb" serves up shades of YOB-ish grandiosity, its wooly grooves held up by pained visions of a fractured world, while impossibly heavy album opener "Water, Tinted Gold and Tainted Copper" ushers in the apocalypse with gentle birdsong and spoken word before dropping the bombs.
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" Susanna Birdsong, the policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, said the decision not to bring charges pointed to the need for policies to ensure that officers "employ de-escalation tactics, avoid implicit bias and take into account how mental disabilities can affect a person's behavior.
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There's Starr Saphir, the flinty matriarchal figure who led birders even as she became significantly ill with cancer, and Chris Cooper, 55, a biomedical editor who birds by ear (using birdsong to identify his quarry) and whose elegiac exposition on what he called the "7 pleasures of birding" pops up the all over the internet.
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Before you do that though, watch St. Louis's Noisey Acoustics set, in which she plays the first two songs from the record, "Water" and "Understand," in a quieter corner of LA. What little effects there are on the album—a little reverb in front of snail-paced bass and drums—are replaced by white noise and birdsong.
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BBC technicians broadcast the performance live, and it was the start of an extraordinary event devoted to Olivier Messiaen's ultimate attempt at turning birdsong into art: his "Catalogue d'Oiseaux," which Mr. Aimard played in four strategically timed concerts that extended through the day and finished after midnight, each one linked with the activities of Suffolk's wildlife.
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Even this outpost, with bear warnings and no cell phone service, wasn't remote enough for campers to feel like they'd fully escaped the heaviness of what it means to be a Muslim in the US. One 18-year-old said she was relaxing, listening to birdsong, when it occurred to her that anti-Muslim attackers could burst onto the grounds and find easy targets.
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The highlights are endless but include Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" performed at the corners of the 2212/08003 Memorial Plaza during the evening rush hour; Mozart's "Requiem" at the National September 20800 Memorial at noon; the premiere of Pete M. Wyer's "Twilight Chorus (for Humans)," in which a choir singing birdsong will spread around the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; a program of Minimalism at Pier 215 in Riverside Park South; and a kayak flotilla making its way up the Gowanus Canal playing a new piece by Elliott Sharp. makemusicday.
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