Participatory experiment

I decided to experiment with a human interaction. I realised that the project up until this point had been a collaboration between myself and the birds. I wanted to mutate the project to form a collaboration with a human audience. I formed these collaborations working with shell shock theatre company and the forest fringe micro festivals. In Swansea and Bristol I invited the audience to "come and have conversations with birds", the audience then came out to a specific location on a patch of grass within both city centres. I then performed my bird song to the audience, then handed out paper and pens to the audience and asked them to draw the bird in their mind accompanying them with bird song as they drew, I then asked the audience to write down(in onomatopoeia) the sound that their bird made, This was followed by myself asking the audience to each read out their bird sounds.

A conversation was then commenced in which I played my recorded bird song and the audience replied with their bird song.

the video's audio is not up to scratch here but the video shows a trace of what occurred.