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Mimus Polyglottos

from Music, Language and Environment by David Dunn

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Mimus Polyglottos is a realtime interactive composition for electronically generated sounds and mockingbird. The final recording represents an initial encounter between the bird and the stimulus. It was recorded outdoors in Balboa Park, San Diego, during July, 1976. The composition was initially stimulated by a fascination with the mockingbird's extraordinary ability to mimic not only the calls of other birds, but also a variety of environmental and machine- generated sounds. Our interest was not only in seeing how we could push that ability in terms of the actual sounds which the bird could mimic, but more significantly to generate a linguistic interaction.

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from Music, Language and Environment, released June 14, 2021

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David Dunn New Mexico

David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, CA. From 1970 to 1974 he was assistant to the American composer Harry Partch & remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional & experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video & film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, & bioacoustic research. ... more

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