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A beatbox/bird song musical hybrid

Thank you to GrrlScientist for your April 21, 2015 post about Jason Mirin and his musical hybrid on the Guardian science blogs (Note: A link has been removed),

I love beatboxing, but as an ornithologist and birder, I am absolutely delighted by this amazing experiment that a fellow New Yorker, Ben Mirin, is working on: he is using birdsong produced by birds that can be found in New York state as the inspiration for his beatboxing.

Mr Mirin is a professional beatboxer, freelance writer and videographer who combined his two passions — beatboxing and birding. Born in Boston, he relocated to New York City in 2013. At that time, he began composing music using local bird songs and his own voice to merge his two interests into a single idea.

“The result was a union of two musical languages whose sounds carry meanings and messages beyond the flow of a melody or the rhythm of a beat”, writes Mr Mirin on his blog, Wingbeat.

GrrlScientist’s April 21, 2015 post hosts the video I have here plus another Mirin recorded in honour of World Wetlands Day in February 2015. She also has more information about Mirin and his work. Or you can go to the horse’s mouth, here’s where you can find Wingbeat (Mirin’s blog).