Benn Jordan created a setup to record and analyze bird sounds, capturing a starling that mimics manmade noises—including an iPhone camera shutter. In a wild twist, Jordan played a sound that encoded a bird drawing, the starling repeated it, and the decoded playback revealed the image—essentially uploading and downloading a picture via the bird. It’s a fascinating, funny dive into bird acoustics (with a gear-deep-dive at the end), and well worth the watch: https://youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?si=CvzPpKUzLk5TTZQO
Benn Jordan—also known in the music world as The Flashbulb—is an American composer and electronic musician whose career began in the late 1990s. In 2014, Jordan moved his home studio to an isolated home in Georgia, where he set up a studio in a barn. Jordan has a self-titled YouTube channel, where he creates educational videos relating to music making.
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