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Songbird

by 57 Splits

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The Leaves 02:07
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Science 04:34
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With Strings 02:00
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Hey Birdsong 02:23
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I Feel Good 05:38

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Created for the RPM Challenge in February of 2011, Songbird is a concept album made almost entirely from cut and pasted samples from preexisting music and audio files. I think there's one tiny moment of white noise generated especially for the album. Let's see if you can find it!

iTunes and Audacity were the only programs employed. Both free.

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released February 10, 2011

A near complete list of all 87 songs sampled follows:

Haymarket Riot - Technicolor Bones
Lalo Schifrin - The School Bus
Trini Lopez - Stagger Lee
Xavier Quijas Yxayotl - Singing Earth
Xavier Quijas Yxayotl - Tonantzin
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rich
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Unwed Sailor - Ruby's Wishes
The Rumble Strips - Motorcycle
Mr. Bungle - Carry Stress in the Jaw
Beulah - What Will You Do When Your Suntan Fades?
Jimmy Eat World - A Sunday
Beck - Corvette Bummer
Aus Rotten - The Second Rape
The Modern Sounds - All By Myself
The Blue Meanies - The Fourth of July
C-Clamp - The Fox and the Hound
Honcho Overload - Bug
Mercury Rev - Boys Peel Out
Skepticality - Episode 147
The Mountains and the Trees - Lost at Sea Town
Lush - Laura
Lonely Trailer - Insurance
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
Cake - Opera Singer
Longfellow - Brazillian Shack Town
Foo - Sponge
Getz/Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanema
Norah Jones - Cold Cold Heart
Daydream King - Speechless
Joan of Arc - Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor
Dyslexic Apaches - Kirk, My Old Friend
Hall of Fantasy - The Black Figurine of Death
The Geraldine Fibbers - Blast Off Baby
Empire State Games - The Evil Song
Fugazi - Combination Lock
Andrew Bird - Imitosis
Dexys Midnight Runners - Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache
Bill Withers - Kissing My Love
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Mooche
Atlas Sound - Criminals
Devo - Girl U Want
Beulah - Hey Brother
An Automotive - Pop Wasteland
Ben Fold Five - Selfless, Cold and Composed
Beulah - Wipe Your Prints and Run
Miles Davis - The Man I Love
Eames Era - Could Be Anything
Dyslexic Apaches - Tigers Are Orange So Go Fuck Yourself
Led Zeppelin - Poor Tom
The Kinks - Little Miss Queen of Darkness
Janelle Monae - Neon Valley Street
Karate - Bass Sounds
Dexys Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said
David Shire - Conductor Killed
Earl Howitzer - elov: LOVE
Miles Davis - Changes
Sufjan Stevens - Let's Hear That String Part Again
The Police - King of Pain
They Might Be Giants - Museum of Idiots
The Sundays - Hideous Towns
The Modern Sounds - Slappin in Rythm
Deathstar - Shutdown
Owen - Bad News
Oscar Peterson - Con Alma
The Pixies - Hey
The Promise Ring - Suffer Never
Radiohead - Where I End and You Begin
Radiohead - A Wolf at the Door
An Automotive - Communal Lobe
Bill Withers - Use Me
Lonely Trailer - Man with a Broom
Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It
Lustre King - Thighs are Vices
Neutral Milk Hotel - Avery Island/April First
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Capital Letters
Miles Davis - Dr. Jackle
Lazlo Bane - Ship on the Wall
Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection
Asobi Seksu - Transaprence
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Braid - This Charming Man
Braid - The New Nathan Detroits
Laurie McColley - Espre de Cour
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
The Kinks - Session Man
Plus a ton of field records of singing birds scrounged off the internet

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Making sample based and experimental music using free and open source software since the beginning of the 21st century.

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