Sing Sing
This work is a soundportrait of the canary bird. Not only was the canary used as friend of the miners but rather as the CO2 dedector deep down in the mines . This piece rather gives us an intimate portrait of the everyday-life sounds the canary makes in his small compound †. Listening to the piece , one is directly confronted with the returing metallic bar-sounds which translate the physical(stress?) movements the encaged bird makes . The bars become a constant and do act as a troublemaker in the occasionally songs the bird sings . They also reflect the awkward reality the birds had to endure (encaged and deep down under the earth surface ) not to mention the miners who did not have a choice but to make their living ..."