We recently posted on artist Xavi Bou‘s creative use of chronophotography, a series of photos that capture the illusion of movement, to craft still portraits of birds in flight.

Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds. These videos were created using computer program to activate particle effects from digitally captured bird sounds.

These are only 2 of the amazing videos he’s created, using bird songs from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision  in Hilversum.

The Nightingale & Canary video was produced to inspire creative industries professionals to submit their own projects to a Europe-wide re-use competition, organised by the Europeana Creative project. All submitted projects make use of archival material available via Europeana, Europe’s gateway to digitized cultural heritage.

The video is part of Sound Connections, one of 5 pilots developed within the Europeana Creative project.

This video was made possible with co-funding from the European Union, through the ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme