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Some of Music’s Biggest Names Create a Trove of New Tunes to Help Birds

The man behind your favorite film soundtracks wants to build a joyful movement around bird conservation. On ‘For the Birds: The Birdsong Project,’ he’s enlisted musical legends and silver-screen icons to help.

A Boxed Set for the Birds Hopes to Save Them, Too

A star-studded, 242-track trove of songs and poems inspired by birdsong is the latest project in a series of releases raising awareness about its own threatened sources.

This episode is “For The Birds” with Bob Boilen

"For the Birds": Art, music and birdsong

More than 200 artists, musicians, actors and writers have collaborated on a multidisciplinary exhibition called "For the Birds," at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City, and for a collection of recordings, "The Birdsong Project," to benefit the National Audubon Society. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores what happens when artists take wing.

‘Like them, we’re fragile’: how Randall Poster assembled his star-packed birdsong project

The esteemed music supervisor enlisted stars such as Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Beck, Sean Penn and Tilda Swinton for an ambitious new project

Birds in Residence, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The garden-wide installation “For the Birds” features site-specific birdhouses made by thirty-three artists, including a cloudlike construction by the Indian-born, New York-based designer Sourabh Gupta.

‘For The Birds’ Is A Flocking Masterpiece Of Musical Packaging

John and Jeri Heiden, of the Silverlake-based boutique design firm SMOG Design, Inc., have a deep passion for the art of physical music packaging. They started in the music industry in the early ’80s, working on full-sized album art for vinyl LPs before moving onto other formats. But they’ve stuck around long enough to see vinyl make its dramatic recent comeback.

Shepard Fairey and Randall Poster Keep The Birdsong Project Going Strong with a New Art Print Portfolio

When Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese or Todd Phillips are looking for that perfect needle drop in their films, they’ve often turned to music supervisor Randall Poster. From Rushmore and Dogma in the 1990s to last year’s Asteroid City and Killers of the Flower Moon, he’s served as music supervisor for literally hundreds of film and TV projects. But none have quite taken over his life like the world of birds.

Beck, Animal Collective, Jeff Tweedy, Karen O, Kamasi Washington, and More Join Birdsong-Inspired Compilation

Benefiting the National Audubon Society, For the Birds: The Birdsong Project features more than 200 tracks influenced by feathered friends

Counting Birds

A sampling of tracks from For the Birds, a new project that proves that we are all birds. By Rebecca Reagan.

New 242-Track Birdsong-Inspired Comp For The Birds Has Beach House, Beck, Animal Collective, & Of Course Andrew Bird

Might I interest you in a 242-track birdsong-inspired compilation? Well, that’s what you’re getting: For The Birds: The Birdsong Project is an ambitious new project organized by producer and music supervisor Randall Poster. It’ll be released in five volumes over the course of the next five months, and the contributor list is quite something.

242-Track Birdsong Project To Feature Top Names In Music, Film

Randall Poster-created compilation will benefit Audubon Society’s bird conservation efforts

Hear New Songs From Beck, Mark Ronson With Damon Albarn From ‘The Birdsong Project’

Hundreds of artists — from Flaming Lips and Karen O to Animal Collective and Jeff Tweedy — contribute new work to the five-volume collection, benefitting the National Audubon Society

YO-YO MA + ANNA CLYNE: IN THE GALE (THE BIRDSONG PROJECT)

The second volume of music supervisor Randall Poster’s awe-inspiring, five-volume The Birdsong Project—composed of songs and spoken-word recordings that draw attention to the beauty of birdsong, as well as the plight of bird life—releases today. From the astounding list of contributions comes “In The Gale” by Yo-Yo Ma and Anna Clyne. Volumes III, IV and V will follow later this year, as will a limited edition 20-LP boxset that features all 242 recordings, original artwork and essays.

It’s a Bird, It’s a Song … It’s The Birdsong Project!

With more than 200 artists, from Nick Cave to Yo-Yo Ma, offering their takes on avian-inspired sound, there’s something for everyone.

In March and April of 2020, when doors shut and cities locked down, ambulance sirens day and night were the only sound one heard. Then came May and an orchestra filled the air—birdsong. The spring push north for nesting had begun, and warbling, cooing, calling birds were giving the one live performance that was safe for human consumption.

Five volume album “For the Birds: The Birdsong Project” raises awareness and funds for our feathered friends

The collection is curated and compiled by distinguished film and television music supervisor Randall Poster; he joins us now along with Executive producer and "For the Birds" creator Rebecca Reagan.

Birdsong Project supports Audubon with music, poetry, exhibition

Today the National Audubon Society announced its partnership in “For the Birds: The Birdsong Project,” a historic and unprecedented outpouring of creativity by more than 220 music artists, actors, literary figures, and visual artists.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Is Transforming Into a Bird's Paradise This Summer

The new exhibit "For the Birds" will be on display from June 11 through October 23.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is ready to celebrate the natural world beyond plants and flowers. This summer, an exhibition dedicated to site-specific birdhouses and the importance of preserving the ecosystem is coming to the NYC landmark, and it will stay in place until the fall.

Mark Ronson, Damon Albarn, and Beach House Contribute to Charity Compilation For the Birds:

Mort Garson and Stevie Wonder have both released albums for plants; Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach was provoked by water pollution; now, at long last, we have an album dedicated entirely to birds. Today, Grammy Award-winning producer and music supervisor Randall Poster has unveiled Volume 1 of For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, a massive compilation of recordings all inspired by sweet sounds of birdsong. Mark Ronson, Damon Albarn, Beach House, Beck, Kurt Vile, Karen O, and many more all appear on the project’s first installment, which you can listen to now.

Flight Songs

If you can’t get enough of our winged friends’ melodious music, you just might love these tunes that pay tribute to them, from Jimi Hendrix, Regina Spektor, Townes Van Zandt, and more. By Adrien Benepe.

Mark Ronson, Damon Albarn, And Wale Assist Our Flying Friends With Their New Benefit Song ‘Bird Calling’

Damon Albarn may have devoted a significant chunk of his life to gorillas (rather, Gorillaz), but they’re not the only animals he cares about: He and a bunch of other artists contributed to For The Birds: The Birdsong Project, a five-volume collection of 242 recordings inspired by birds and their singing, with proceeds benefiting the National Audubon Society.

Elvis Costello, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Beck featured on 20xLP Birdsong-Inspired compilation, For The Birds

More than 200 artists have contributed to a massive new compilation of music inspired by birdsong. For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, which will be released in five separate volumes starting today and will be released as a limited-edition 20xLP box set, features 242 tracks and is produced by Grammy-award winning producer and music supervisor Randall Poster.

Beastie Boys’ AdRock Shares a Hardcore Squawk on Volume Three of ‘For the Birds’

Latest installment of the ambitious five-volume set also features contributions from Natalie Bergman, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, John Cale, Greta Gerwig, and Conor Oberstion goes here

‘For the Birds’: Music project celebrates birdsong to save it

Randall Poster, an influential Hollywood music supervisor, found solace in the sounds of nature during the worst of the pandemic. Colleague Rebecca Reagan then encouraged him to invite notable musicians to create music built around birdsong. The result is “For the Birds: The Birdsong Project.”

‘FOR THE BIRDS’ INSTALLATION BRINGS 30 FUNKY BIRDHOUSES TO BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN

The exhibit is meant to make a point about the threat to our bird population from overdevelopment. Bonus: there's a bodega birdhouse