Free as a bird... .. Silence.
With a hunch that the answer was far more complex, Marler did decades of rigorous experiments, raising some birds in silence, exposing others only to the songs of alien species, and even deafening birds at particular stages of their development.
And then, out of the blue — or was the birds' sudden silence a loud enough warning?
Then there was a thump, the smell of burning birds, and silence as both aircraft engines cut out, she said.
Birds are silenced mid-song.
Suspicions about new music were confirmed when Radiohead began uploading short claymation clips to their Instagram account, starting with a bird chirping into silence.
In "The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art," on view through February 22nd, a dozen artists explore birds as "allegories for our own earthbound existence".
Fewer birds interrupted the silence and blooming flowers were rare.
In vast regions, not even birds broke the silence.
Otherwise, except for the whistles of a few birds, there is silence.
A sullen introverted chap in a cabin in the woods stuffs small birds in brooding silence.
