Birds needs air resistance...but
Cinematic spoken word piece with ambient orchestral accompaniment. A female narrator delivers a philosophical monologue with a dry, intimate vocal profile. The arrangement features a sustained string ensemble providing slow-moving harmonic pads, a delicate piano playing sparse melodic fragments in the upper register, and a subtle woodwind section. A rhythmic pulse is established by a muted, cinematic percussion hit on the downbeats. The composition is in the key of C Major with a slow, rubato-influenced tempo around 65 BPM. The production uses high-fidelity field recordings of nature sounds, including birds and wind, layered into the background. The mix emphasizes vocal clarity with a close-mic proximity effect and light plate reverb on the instruments.
Birds needs air resistance...but
Cinematic spoken word piece with ambient orchestral accompaniment. A female narrator delivers a philosophical monologue with a dry, intimate vocal profile. The arrangement features a sustained string ensemble providing slow-moving harmonic pads, a delicate piano playing sparse melodic fragments in the upper register, and a subtle woodwind section. A rhythmic pulse is established by a muted, cinematic percussion hit on the downbeats. The composition is in the key of C Major with a slow, rubato-influenced tempo around 65 BPM. The production uses high-fidelity field recordings of nature sounds, including birds and wind, layered into the background. The mix emphasizes vocal clarity with a close-mic proximity effect and light plate reverb on the instruments.
Lyrics
[ambient nature sounds, birds chirping, soft wind]
[sustained string pads enter, C Major]
[Verse 1]
[female spoken word, intimate tone]
I love exceptions, not out of snobbery, but because they reveal unsuspected room for maneuver. [sparse piano notes enter]
They offer not life lessons to be learned but rather lessons on how life actually works.
I have always approached the phrase "anything is possible" with great caution. [low string swell]
For me, it amounts to denying the existence of reality and its constraints.
And yet, a bird needs air resistance to fly. [woodwinds enter softly]
Therefore, I find it inappropriate.
On the other hand, certain rare journeys act as revelations of unknown degrees of freedom available to us, even if only by collaborating with others who possess talents and skills we are unaware of or that would take us a long time to acquire.
It is something that says: if you feel imprisoned by who you are here and now, perhaps there is a key you simply haven't seen yet. [muted percussion hit on downbeat]
[Verse 2]
I had the chance to spend several happy years alongside Natalia Bogonofska; she is a Ukrainian photographer and director. [piano melody becomes more rhythmic]
She introduced me to many things, but one name in particular: Evgen Bavcar.
He is of Slovenian and French nationality and is a photographer; one might describe him as a photographer of the darkness. [string tension increases]
He reincorporates into his photography something that belongs to cinema and music: the notion of time.
This man's home is the shadows because, just as Beethoven composed while deaf, Evgen Bavcar is the only photographer in this world who is completely blind; he has been so since the age of twelve.
It seems to me that such a story deserves to be heard; I'll leave it to you to decide.
The link to the report is in the comments section.
[Outro]
[strings fade to a single note]
[piano plays final high C]
[nature sounds linger and fade out]