Otus Scops improv

Reimagined by Jasna Jovicevic.

""Otus Scops Improv" is one of the improvised music pieces from the album "The Sound of Birds", artistic part of a powerful civil movement , which took place in Serbia from 2013-2015. The album was a part of an artistic public campaign for protection of endangered doves, from illegal hunt, especially in the territory of the Nature Park "Palić" Special Nature Reserve "Ludaško Lake" in Vojvodina; where we succeeded in the battle, forming Coalition and legal initiative, changing the law. These were the locations where we recorded the sounds.

The album is original music I composed and improvised ( recorded and toured), by using recorded bird songs, which I put in different musical and geopolitical situations, forms and roles in the songs, by stretching, editing, detuning, decelerated and combined with acoustic instrumentation, changing its meaning as a resource. Soundscapes can deeply, effectively and responsibly influence the human mind, and is useful as a gentle strategy in Ecology- Nature love and care distribution. 

In this song, we sampled the bird sounds into midi controller EWI ( Electronic woodwind Instrument), so I used the sounds as if they were part of the so called horn sound. I could produce them with my air, and change their pitch on my midi instrument, combined with other midi sounds. The whole composition is a momentary improvisation

Artists:

Jasna Jovicevic - concept, EXI

Bojan Bojic - sempling, sound effects

Armand Mesaros - el.bass guitar"

Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature