One quiet spring evening, I recorded a blackbird in a tree outside my house, using nothing more than the Voice Recorder app on a Samsung Galaxy S2. I used the free Audacity software to slow it down to a quarter speed, and the result is a spooky cross between howling monkeys and Canadian loons. See for yourself!

Blackbird Song - quarter speed

This was a short motif created by Martin Revans and Mike Bastow and recorded on 14th May 2013. The inspiration was the idea of a resourceful "goodie" who escapes from captors, and is travelling under cover through countryside with the intent of returning to rescue his fellow prisoners.