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Georgina MacDonell Finlayson - Silent Spring

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Birds and their songs are embedded in our cultural landscape across the world. And yet some of the most common birds in the UK, 67 species, are now on the RSPB’s Red List of endangered birds. What will the world sound like when there aren’t any birds? Who will remember their song? This piece, 'Silent Spring' is a meditation on the slowly depleting natural world around us, and in particular the possible extinction of the familiar song thrush. The song thrush is such a recognisable garden bird here in the UK, and yet their numbers in the UK are declining rapidly. Much of the material of this piece stems from a recording of Annie Johnston imitating the song thrush (smeòrach) in the song Cainnt nan Eun, recorded by J. L. Campbell on Barra (Outer Hebrides) between 1930 and 1950. I wanted to capture a sense of this conversation between humans and the song thrush that has broken down - the very real possibility of this bird disappearing from our world entirely.

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from Remembrance Species 2020, released November 30, 2020
Georgina MacDonell Finlayson is a musician, composer, sound artist and community arts practitioner from the North East of Scotland. Her compositions explore everything from traditional and contemporary classical styles, to sound design, theatre scores, spoken word and electroacoustic composition. Throughout my creative practice, she feels strongly about using what she does to bring us closer to landscape and nature and address our urgent need to live sustainably.

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Remembrance Species Scotland, UK

Remembrance Species is a collective based in Scotland, marking Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30th through imaginative creative community engagement.

2011 - Funeral for the Great Auk

2012 - St Stephens Island Wren

2016 - "Circle; Cycle" by Great Auk Collective

2018 - Stellers Sea Cow

2020 - Axolotl / Coastal Seabirds ... more

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