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Hummingbird Music

by Julius Smack

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1.
Day 08:28
2.
Night 06:46

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“Hummingbird Music” emerged from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as I more closely observed the wildlife surrounding my home in Highland Park, Los Angeles. The hummingbirds especially captured my attention as they hovered outside my window when I played my analog synthesizers. I installed a Zoom recorder next to the hummingbird feeder and captured the sound of the hummingbird wings, which flutter an average of 53 beats per second. “Day” captures those sounds among the rest of the neighborhood sounds, like coughing neighbors, trains, and barking dogs. “Night” imagines a hummingbird’s interior world as they dream, having reduced their heart rate from 1,260 beats per minute during the day to 50-180 beats per minute at night when they enter a hibernation state called torpor.

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released May 5, 2023

Produced by Julius Smack
Mastered by Peter Hernández at Practical Records Studio
Artwork by Aidan Koch

Released on Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations

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