Wren song on the violin; a new art form or a waste of half a week?

I've been working on this for the last few days, and now at 3.00 on sunday morning I've finally finished.

Remember the Wren song?

Wren original

And then slowed down to 1/4 speed:

Wren 25%

Lots of the notes in the song sounded to me like notes in a musical scale, so I made a more accurate sonogram:

Then compared frequencies against actual notes on a piano here:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies

Then I got hold of an electric piano and tried to play the notes out. To my absolute amazement, the notes turned out to be standard notes mostly around the key of C.

The next job was to download Mozart10 software and in no time at all ( oh alright; about 8 hours) I managed to produce this:

 
 Next I had to play it. A piano is no good because of all the glissandi   (sliding notes) and the best instrument for that would be a violin. But where would you find a violinist at 2.00 in the morning? Well shucks, that would be me again....

Wrenviolin

This is slowed down 4X and the pitch is reduced by 2 octaves. What would it sound like if it was speeded up and the pitch was raised back to the original? Would you get the authentic sound of a Wren in violin tones?

Well yes you would actually. And they said I was mad!

Here it is:  

Wrenviolinfinal

I wonder if this has ever been done before. I've had a look on the web but can't find any references.

 

Comments

[Diego]

great blog. Olivier Messiaen was a composer who sometimes used birdsongs as a basis for his music.

for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAMcaq1FB4&feature=related

[Iain]

Marvellous. And thanks for your comment.