British artist Marcus Coates made videos of people singing along to slowed-down birdsong in ordinary human habitats. Then he sped the videos back up to pitch.

The result is pretty fantastic. The method reminds me of the backwards singing on Radiohead’s “Like Spinning Plates” or this backwards-filmed high school video set to Hall & Oates.

You can hear slowed down birdsong here (linked via Boing Boing).

The installation of Coates’ videos, “Dawn Chorus,” puts them scattered around a room, creating a weird morning songbird sonic environment.

And the birds tag just keeps getting better and better.

 (via Daniel Stephen Johnson)