Jim Fassett - Symphony of the Birds

[charlieheinz57]

Jim Fassett was the announcer for the New York Philharmonic broadcasts in the 1950s. This is terrible.

[Yotta8887]

AMAZING!!

[love187punk]

mom..

[GhostofaSound]

This is fascinating. It's entrancing in a creepy/disturbing way.

[JBshotJL]

I like to hear experiments like this. That break the chain of modern music, but is still in itself music.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

Thanks for posting this rarity. I had never heard it before, but I have a copy of Jim Fassett's "Strange to Your Ears" on vinyl, and have loved it since I was a kid.

[DarkBallYE]

This is what I call Electronic Music 8D

[Lboogie501]

aweful.....



[ShiftyRobot]

Lmao

[BeatingDeadthings]

creepy shit

[sk8boardinmonkey]

This makes me feel drowsy :O

[NonnyMus1]

Interesting stuff, so I'm glad you posted it.

[Elefantter]

It seems to be a sin to experiment with birdsongs...I find it interesting, even if it is not beautiful. Especially at the end.

[AlphaSigma10]

looks like you slowed down the original sound bits and now it's creepy, just like slowing down an original human voice recording is; this should be titled something along the line of, "symphony of the creep who made this." peace.

[Isabo1955]

This is awesome ! I sit outside in the evening and listen to the birds and frogs ... and I love it ! This is very different from what I hear. It is great !

[cosmic25sheep]

These would make great sound effects for the original Star Trek series.....chilling!!!!!

[ZorgDK]

@cosmic25sheep yes you're right lol expect it's not chilling. :D

[Dawnslight16]

Beam me up, Scotty!

[2020alrad]

Birds already sing like angels, they don't need any help! You have entirely too much time on your hands, go re-write the bible or something!

[NonnyMus1]

@2020alrad The poster didn't do it. Read the description.

[airvarie]

Not bad...so Cool you guy

[klaritydawn]

Okay DUDE how friggen freaky is this!!! Seriously you've somehow taken something so incredibly beautiful by nature and compiled it into something terrifying. I'm with everyone else here...sorry but this is just wrong. I Know God never intended for this to be the sound his children heard while listening to one of his most beautiful creations... Shiver, hair standing on end and now I'm scared to go to sleep!! Okay not really but it is truly scary. Yep take me to your leader????

[Monochroma2]

It's funny, :D

[roboticpigeon42]

Giygas much?

[SnakesAndCupcakes]

O.o soooo creepy......

[ilikemitchhedberg]

We gracefully welcome our new Leaders from Mars!! All Hail the new Kings!

[uuforlife]

i feel as though im walking through a forest hearing sounds of unearthy creatures surrounding me. But they don't talk. and i can hear them chattering in my head. Its also very disturbing. What's interesting is that a single bird singing is beautiful. even a whole group of birds is beautiful. but this is something other worldly.

[ilovedominicax]

this is soo creepy !

[danieladventist]

holy cow that was terrifiing

[ikelleners]

Maybe he took wrong disc? And instead of birds, he putted in MARS ATTACKS!!!

[MsCLAU96]

@ikelleners im sure he did that!! :)

[vs1990sangha]

Yeah birds from out of space!!

[TedBronson1918]

Lighten up ! This was a way cool and original idea. The man had the genius of converting the bird songs for an end result of a futuristic spacey type of sound. I liked the idea of this work and the end musical result. I thought this was great. I'm about to listen to it again!

[XxmintkissxX]

Aww I like it :)

[shodanxx]

the compression algorithm doesn't like the sounds @1:25

[JustK8]

well this is more educational than a lullaby. Still isn't it amazing what birds can do??? I mean - WOW! :)

[huisvrouwtjuh]

Since the man altered (and reduced the speed of) the real sound of some of the birds it is no longer origional, true or even interesting, imo... So i'm off, going to have another look at dancing birds, way more funny. ^^

[grysek]

Too heavy for me ...

[exitcheese]

this aint soothing ! its effing scary !

[xPupLuvablex]

WTF is this!?!?! O_o

[thewardenlover]

i am officially scared.. i haven't been scared in forever....

[freethoughtmusic]

Considering it would all have been done on analog gear it's pretty impressive, but kind of spooky to say the least.

[fotapio]

My cats like this music :)

[AreYouInMySpoon]

...i think its telling me to kill myself... o_O

[Eveisgood]

this is so so so beautiful

[SargeantSquid]

I am so terrified right now

[glitch509]

O_o

[uburoar]

I have this LP, and then you stole it from me. I want it back. I also want a sandwich. and ten winning lottery tickets. Give. Them. To. Me.

[hasbor]

the birds are invading our planet with the help of the UFOs, lets kill all the birds

[PunCobaiin]

SCARY.

[TheMultiVicky1]

was ist das für ein psychokram? :D

aber geil ist es, gut; 4*

[MonaLenka]

it' mystical

[comrade21325]

wow



[rsmith1506]

my cat started searching around in hunt-mode around while i was listening to this

it is creepy

i couldn't stop laughing

[Coltsfanatic88]

If you hear anything that may be an instrument... YOU ARE WRONG!

[sicuris11]

i must say this is pretty trippy.

[otispickit]

the voice over in the beginning kills it for me.

[SACHATRON]

this sounds nothing like birds. hahhahaha.

[shesacolourscientist]

'...then you are wrong'. haha that's me told. I quite like this.

[jrdnjlly]

sounds like humans whistling

[Angelwings6843]

Oh my, its just beutyful, I really love it! a bird symphony... they are just really birds... wonderful... fantastik! 0:D

[yohannatje]

omfg. this freaks my out. and also makes me laugh out loud x3 what the hell..

[wtfcxxntface]

freaked the fuck out when the birds started singing.

i have a stupid fear of aliens & such...

& when the birds began singing all my nightmares came back -_-

[yohannatje]

@wtfcxxntface whahaahahaha! aaw, poor you *hug* and I think the same x3 this really freaks me out, what the heck was Jim Fassett thinking? :']

[wtfcxxntface]

@yohannatje lol thanks<3 i know! that man has serious issues if he thought this somehow sounded beautiful & NOT like an alien invasion...

[paroxyzm21]

This is shit

[SK8TERBITCH89]

erm. i don't like this ... but my 2 birds do lol

[DCFunBud]

This should be entitled, "The Symphony of the UFOs."

[Merl734]

these are not real birds; it sounds like humans pretending to be birds; or electronic music faking bird sounds; just too werid and not sounding so good

[milune11]

estoning!!!very interesting idea

[inputmodule]

this is fucking amazing-

every experimental/electronic musician should know about this guy

[jamminjuk]

interesting

[madmiask]

Sounds like X-files. lol

Very strange

[osspanskooranice]

oh my gosh this is so freaking creepy

[hey413m]

now i am freaked out about weird alien birds...i'm going to a bomb shelter now, wheres my tin foil hat !

[SomebodyLS]

Did he record birds or clangers?

[Dalley100]

@SomebodyLS you just made my day haha clangers thats fucking funny!

[95stangdude]

tha hell was that? O_o

[SaintLinkVII]

4:25 WTF!!!!

[McCrown1]

This is the result, if humans think the can play god. The nature itself doenst need any Track like that. Nice try, but I think it doesnt fit..

[vigwig]

It got my macaw to shut up!

[videovedo36]

can you upload other movements from the symphony?

thankyou for this one!

[Subher0]

it's more creepy than anything

[PatGoltz]

If you speed up whale songs, they sound like birds. I'll bet if you slowed these birds down more, they'd sound like whales.

[lolwallace]

Interesting, but not particularly pleasant to listen to.

[1989Foxy50]

I don't think my Conure knows what to make of it...

[zschuah]

UFOs?? haha

[Glowsticks121]

This makes my cat go into a trance and sit next to the speakers XD

[DazzledRose3193]

@Glowsticks121 mine at on the pc box thing and sat listing to the speakers

[gugaLiuzzi]

a nice idea, but changing the original pitch makes makes it unnatural, losing the main idea NATURE

[peanut2614]

For some reason my bird has gone silent and is rocking back and forth as this is paying...

[flameram]

better for you to record the sounds from a forest only then you will hear a symphony from bird voises.the video you uploaded is very poor

[solconnection2]

thanks for the upload, ive been looking for this too :)

[Donatillo1961]

quit throwing your pills out by the seeds !

[pikubird]

GET A DOCTOR DUDE , YOU REALLY NEED ONE

[Spyplane2008]

I couldnt fall asleep to this. I would think the world is ending from a large UFO beaming over my town, eventually small little aliens coming out and capturing my brain.

[killuminati7777777]

yeah man

weird music XD

[bolshak34]

@Spyplane2008 hahahhaha its horrible towards the end

[moonlit79]

..weird but interesting.

[MIwildbird]

Really cool! A half hour of this at bedtime and I would have no problem falling asleep.

[riverwater12]

This creeps me out..... Thank God! Birds don't really sing like this!!!

[OjaiBirds]

Cool idea! Interesting sounds.

[Qidron]

Very creepy like something from a horror flick. Clever yes, but way to creepy to call brilliant or even good.....really. Birds' songs are uplifting and beautiful....THIS IS NEITHER.

[izzigogo]

This is lovely, my love bird and parakeet love it too....thanks

[hotirisbabe]

creepy

[nicklikescookies]

@hotirisbabe totaly agrre :D

[TheCreator4]

Eerie... what if birds did this on thier own, in the wild?

[Witig]

I and my Bourkes enjoyed this. Thankyou.

[jimbooftheshire]

there would seem to be a fine line between "poop,and perfection", if you go by all of these comments.

[pjaliverpool]

This is brilliant.

[julianjjr]

beatrispits you suck shit when it comes to birds.

[jp3699]

kinda booring but it must of took a bout 3 years to make

[missm0zart]

very clever!

[cbrun67176]

this stinks

[logansGT]

I actually heard a musical instrument in this recording. It sounded like Sarah Palin playing her flute!

[tyrofusion]

what a load of shit. so fucking droany.

[wargirl583]

Amazing!

[LoricaLady]

Cool!

[izzigogo]

I have been looking for this over 10 years!

thanks....love it, by the way I own a Love-Bird and a singing parakette, they go crazy over this video....they are signing as I type this msg.......thanks a million

[AntoineDoinel123]

Here's an idea: "Culephelion - Symphony of the Birds (Jim Fassett cover)", but you should use a metronome.

Does the piano material on that MiniDV still exist, or has it been abandoned? Post it up.