{"id":1382,"date":"2025-01-11T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2025-01-11T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:39:07","slug":"a-dawn-chorus-at-cheeseburn-grange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/a-dawn-chorus-at-cheeseburn-grange\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dawn Chorus at Cheeseburn Grange\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Variations on a theme of re-enchantment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mike Collier and Bennett Hogg<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things a visitor to Cheeseburn first hears is the rich and liquid sound of birdsong. It is a joyous and uplifting singing of the world as the air becomes enchanted with the song of Blackbird, Song Thrush, Wren, Goldcrest, Blue Tit and many more birds. As Joseph Beuys said, in a world \u2018where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear\u2019. Here, in this work for the chapel at Cheeseburn, the enchanters are the birds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"1361\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicgrid-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc10.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc10-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc9.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc9-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc8.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc8-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc7.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc7-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc6.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc6-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc5.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc5-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc4.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc4-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc3.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc3-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc2.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc2-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike\u2019s series of small circular pieces made especially for the chapel. They are based on visualisations of each song, roughly annotated using Geoff Sample\u2019s recordings and sonongrams;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container rl-loading\" id=\"rl-gallery-container-2\" data-gallery_id=\"1385\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicgrid-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-2\" data-gallery_no=\"2\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-p2.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-p2-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-p.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-p-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"rl-gallery-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-p3.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/dc-p3-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bennett\u2019s music filled the chapel with piano pieces that reimagine the dawn chorus as interlocking but independent melodies; a tapestry of sound.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variations on a theme of re-enchantment Mike Collier and Bennett Hogg&nbsp; One of the things a visitor to Cheeseburn first hears is the rich and liquid sound of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tile.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecollier.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}