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Completed in July 2001, Birdstance is essentially a proof-of-concept for Happenstance.
Inspired by Brian Eno's "Compact Forest Proposal" installation at San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, the idea is to use the random shuffle and infinite repeat features of the listener's CD player to create a piece of music that is continually different and without end. It plays until you get sick of it and press stop.
The CD contains 99 tracks (about 45 minutes) of short clips of birdsong.
You can listen to a short example of what it might sound like here. You have two options: