« Britain’s Sonic Therapy : listening to birdsong during and after the First World War » : l’histoire d’un chant de #rossignol et d’un #violoncelle chaque mois de mai sur la #BBC
▻http://remedianetwork.net/2015/06/16/britains-sonic-therapy-listening-to-birdsong-during-and-after-the-fi
It was a quarter to eleven in the evening on Monday 19th of May 1924 when the pacey dance music of the BBC’s Savoy Orchestra was interrupted on the wireless by a duet between a human and bird. What radio listeners heard was Elgar’s favorite cellist, #Beatrice_Harrison, in her wooded Surrey garden playing The Londonderry Air to prompt a nightingale to pour forth its song. This live broadcast experiment was sanctioned by John Reith, the Managing Director of the BBC, and nobody was more relieved than him when the transmission crackled into homes across Britain.
(...) The potency of the nightingale’s song to provoke feelings of nostalgia, belonging and delight kept radio listeners spellbound for the next 11 years: until 1935, the BBC continued to broadcast a nightingale in concert with Beatrice Harrison every May, often over several evenings. From 1936, continuing into the Second World War, the bird alone took the microphone for ten minutes between eleven and midnight, when the solace of birdsong was needed as much as ever.
« Capturing the song of the Nightingale, the first ever live outdoor radio broadcast »
▻http://blog.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/2013/01/08/from-nightingale-to-narcissus
The first outside broadcast ever made by the BBC was the famous Nightingale broadcast of 19th May 1924. An improved microphone made this possible – an excellent example of which we recently acquired from the BBC. In this article, I attempt to recapture the forgotten prominence of this pioneering microphone, while deciphering the cultural meanings surrounding the Nightingale phenomenon. I will also draw upon the Nightingale broadcasts’ ‘reappearance’ within two feature films; The Demi-Paradise (1943) and Electric Dreams (1984).
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Harrison
Les interprétations de Beatrice Harrison deviennent connues avec les diffusions radiophoniques au début de la BBC. Elle fait quelques enregistrements live dans le jardin de sa maison d’Oxted, et des rossignols chantaient en même temps qu’elle jouait. Ont été enregistrés ainsi, entre autres, les pièces suivantes : Songs my mother taught me (Dvorak), Chant Hindu (Rimsky-Korsakov) et Londonderry Air . Les enregistrements comprennent également des chants de rossignol seuls. Ces enregistrements étaient extrêmement populaires.
Cependant au moins une personne affirme que les chants d’oiseaux entendus lors des enregistrements de la BBC ne sont pas ceux d’oiseaux mais ceux d’un siffleur talentueux, Maude Gould.
Un des enregistrements
▻https://soundcloud.com/cornecraik/beatrice-harrison-and
Un autre, avec mise en perspective historique
▻https://soundcloud.com/tweet-of-the-day/totd-nightingale-part-2
Et un fameux de 1942, dont la diffusion fut annulée au dernier moment car il laissait entendre des bombardiers britanniques en route pour attaquer l’Allemagne
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093108/The-remarkable-moment-BBC-forced-pull-plug-World-War-II-birdsong-broadc
It was one of the earliest BBC traditions; each year in May the corporation broadcast the birdsong from a Surrey back garden live on the radio.
But on May 19, 1942, as BBC staff prepared to transmit the chirruping of nightingales, 197 Wellington and Lancaster bombers appeared overhead.
A quick-thinking engineer, realising a live broadcast of the bombers could warn Nazi spies of the impending attack, pulled the plug.
But a poignant double-sided recording of the moment survived. The first side records the departing planes, the second captures their return - 11 fewer.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MHqW5KVds
Recording of Nightingale birdsong from a garden in Surrey, England on May 19th 1942 as 197 Wellington and Lancaster bombers fly overhead on a bombing raid to Germany.
Une pièce inspirée par cet épisode
▻https://soundcloud.com/notl/beatrice-and-the-bombers
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