<div dir="ltr"><div>Join us for the fantastic lecture/audio project by Music Researcher Ian Nagoski!</div><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">2 Dec., Liebigstraße 12, 10247 Berlin</span></div></span><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">19.30 Doors</span><br style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">20.00 Lecture</span><br style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">€5 - 10 Suggest Donation directly to artist</span><div><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span><div><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">ECSTATIC & WINGLESS: Bird-Imitation on Four Continents</span><br style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcanary-records.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Fecstatic-wingless-bird-imitation-on-four-continents-ca-1910-44&h=KAQETjhYU&enc=AZOE0idcp5M8gWnIZCdyXT99YKdJlrrLnX6RQCqiwvmg9pCl7vTI3XUXbP1-H2A0hHc&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:inherit">https://</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span><span style="font-family:inherit">canary-records.bandcamp.com</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span><span style="font-family:inherit">/album/</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span><span style="font-family:inherit">ecstatic-wingless-bird-imit</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span><span style="font-family:inherit">ation-on-four-continents-c</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span>a-1910-44</a><br style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Ecstatic & Wingless is an audio documentary project on early 20th century birdsong and its direct relationship on human performance - and human action on birdsong. It tells the story not only of the first recordings of cagebirds but also the practice of bird-imitation, a field that produced amazing and eccentric celebrities during the 1910s-20s. Rarely heard in recent years, bird imitation was also recorded comm</span><span class="gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(75,79,86);font-size:14px">ercially on every continent by 1925 and likely predates music or language in human history. <br><br>Music researcher Ian Nagoski has previously explored the porous boundaries of culture through 78rpm records of immigrants from collapsing European and Near Eastern empires as they arrived in the U.S. in early 20th century, and in the process, learned the stories of great, forgotten performers. With Ecstatic & Wingless, he has opened his exploration to the world of vaudevillians and bird-fanciers, of canaries, nightingales, finches, and the people who studied them, poeticized them, and tried to be them.<br><br><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/humanitys-deepest-longings-found-in-a-birds-song" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">http://www.newyorker.com/</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span><span style="font-family:inherit">culture/cultural-comment/</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span><span style="font-family:inherit">humanitys-deepest-longings-</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_break" style="display:inline-block;font-family:inherit"></span>found-in-a-birds-song</a><br><a href="http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-pulse/92908-bird-or-human-music-collector-pays-homage-to-bird-songs-and-the-oft-forgotten-imitator" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit">http://www.newsworks.org/</span><wbr><span class="gmail-word_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