The Calling is a choreographed concert shaped by birdsongs — intertwining field recordings, human voices, and movement. In this performance, the mouth and body become instruments, sampling and echoing the soundscape of the city.

How do we listen to a city?
What kinds of birds exist — or have existed — there?
What sonic textures do they create?
What kind of collage emerges from their presence?

Grounded in eco-acoustic research, the group behind The Calling moves through outdoor spaces, settling close to birds and their habitats. Their inquiry is experimental and embodied — listening with their ears, their skin, their full presence.

They take their time.

The sounds they gather is digested and reproduced — sung, arranged, and spatialized like a living soundscape. Even as they perform, the birds continue to call beyond the frame, reminding us that nature endures beyond our field of vision.

Here, the boundaries between human and non-human, inside and outside, begin to blur — inviting new interspecies connections to take shape.

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