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Lost Canopy, 2023
Hunting horn speakers
Lost Canopy conjures the dead.
Although we might experience the recordings as filling the museum garden with a distant dawn chorus performed by birds nesting in the treetops, these acoustic-ghosts are in fact signals from a lost past - reminding us that the present too is already history. Through speakers otherwise employed to attract birds for the purposes of hunting, Lost Canopy broadcasts the songs of now extinct bird species in the canopy of the museum garden.
These archival recordings, pulled from the vaults of time — the earliest recording of the Bachman’s Warbler was made in 1954 — reach our ears in the present as an elegiac reminder of what is now lost and gone.
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