http://artery.wbur.org/2014/01/17/zebra-finches-electric-guitars
i want to listen to finches playing guitar forever
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 January 2014 00:58 (eleven years ago)
http://artery.wbur.org/files/2014/01/0117_finch2-wide.jpg
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 January 2014 00:59 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CTFI3f_bCk
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:03 (eleven years ago)
I went to that exhibition at the Barbican, what, 4 years ago?
― John Fitzgerald Chicken (imago), Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:05 (eleven years ago)
It's cool though :P
i want to go - we were planning on visiting boston in the next few months anyway so maybe we'll hit it up while we're up there
― Mordy , Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:07 (eleven years ago)
yeah it's rad, the guitars are tuned so as to make a fairly pleasant racket. best bits are when a finch hops up or down the fretboard
wrote a 'hilarious' 'gig review' after going which has fortunately been lost
― John Fitzgerald Chicken (imago), Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:08 (eleven years ago)
Yep, I went to the Barbican show. It was amazing. Though honestly the finches themselves were the highlight for me - the sounds were good and it's a cool concept, but... they sat on me! They tried to take my laces for their nests!
― emil.y, Sunday, 26 January 2014 03:58 (eleven years ago)
tbf in anything that involves birds, especially passerines, for them to not be the highlight would probably require actual magic
― John Fitzgerald Chicken (imago), Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:01 (eleven years ago)
yeah this was a beautiful show. zebrafinches - why call them finches when you could be saying "zebrafinches"? - are so wonderful to see.
they didn't quite get the symbols right at the barbican iirc, maybe they've been practicing
― mustread guy (schlump), Sunday, 26 January 2014 04:11 (eleven years ago)
.... how's about a pair of great tits ???
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/GreatTit002.jpg
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 26 January 2014 16:12 (eleven years ago)