<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d89d757d-ffd0-4d3b-9d28-f92db84bee1b/49EAD3F2-9B09-496C-86D3-46A46C7487ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cnet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><H1>Music by birds on a wire</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P> A Brazilian musician has just completed a collaboration with an unusual partner: a large group of birds sitting on telephone wires. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P> According to the <A href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212468/Birds-wire-song-strikes-chord-listeners.html">Daily Mail</A>, Jarbas Agnelli saw a newspaper photo of a large flock of black birds sitting on the wires and recognized that their configuration looked very much like a musical score. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P> Starting from there, he arranged and recorded a composition, using xylophone, bassoon, oboe and clarinet and, of course, the notes laid out by the birds. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P><A href="http://vimeo.com/6428069">Birds on the Wires</A> from <A href="http://vimeo.com/agnelli">Jarbas Agnelli</A> on <A href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P> "The pleasing melody is not my invention. It was the birds' idea," Agnelli told the Daily Mail. "The notes are the exact position of the birds (in between the lines). The rhythm is a interpretation of their position, since there are no bar lines." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10357175-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"><P> No word yet on whether the birds have engaged representation or what kind of royalties they will be asking for. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/49EAD3F2-9B09-496C-86D3-46A46C7487ED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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