www.animalbehaviorarchive.org
Recordings from the archive play a role in “The Birds That Roar,” reports the Ithaca Journal. According to the newspaper, a performance tomorrow in Ithaca, New York:
begins with fascinating bird and animal sounds from the archive, presented by Cornell Professor Ron Hoy, an animal communication expert, and Cornell physicist John Greenly. They will show how these sounds have inspired composers and musician-scientist John Greenly will provide musical examples with his quartet and solo on his clarinet.
The second part of the finale will be presented by Oscar-winning sound designer and director Gary Rydstrom of Pixar. He'll discuss his work on the Jurassic Park movies and how he used bird sounds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library to give computer-generated dinosaurs a voice.
The archive of animal sounds (and a growing collection of behavioral video) at the Lab's Macaulay Library is the largest in the world. Sounds from the collection have been used in everything from research to museum exhibits, toys, games and, of course, movies. Anyone wishing to explore animal sounds can listen to the collection online by visiting www.animalbehaviorarchive.org.
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