study for a colonial echoic: mr bird learns an old warning song from 2015 new song by f a sumon Watch Video
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Description: The song of a wild bird, transcribed to the musical notation of the European culture which hunted it to extinction in colonial New Zealand, is played back on a small hand-cranked acoustic music box over 100 years later to a caged domestic canary in a London apartment.nnAt first, the canary listens to the music, occasionally seeming to chirp affirmatively, as though to say:
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