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Gail Priest - The Common Koel

from Birds of a Feather 7​-​8 by Marcus Fischer and Gail Priest

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You first realise that a Common Koel has come to stay at around 5am on an October morning. His nagging squawk will continue until sometime in March when he will return to more northern climes. Over those long four months his monotonous bleating will have attracted a lady friend (who is nowhere near as noisy) and their avian passion will have resulted in an egg, left in some other poor bird's nest for raising.
Common Koels don't have nice manners and they don't have a pretty song. I was interested in working with the Koel's song - aesthetically awkward, perhaps even repellent - to find new ways of integrating and manipulating field recording. Taking lessons from the bird, the resulting piece explores infiltration, imitation and subjugation as strategies.
Gail Priest, Sydney, Australia

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from Birds of a Feather 7​-​8, released June 2, 2013

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