![]() Maybe if we talk about songbirds instead, Poster thought, agreement will arise. ![]() Discussions about the environment often trigger political reactions that derail any hope of reaching consensus on appropriate action. Everyone loves songbirds, and yet their numbers are falling drastically due to ecological depredation. He said he conceived of the project midpandemic while reflecting on the fact that songbirds make the most beautiful music. I met Poster, who was in San Antonio for the gala, along with several of the birdhouse designers, at an intimate gathering at the Matthewses’ Alamo Heights home. Casa de Ave by Marlon Blackwell (Josh Huskin) 3D printed birdhouse by Judy Pesek of Gensler (Josh Huskin) Poster’s For the Birds: The Birdsong Project-a 20-LP box set containing more than 200 tracks of original bird-related music and poetry, the proceeds of which go to support the Audubon Society-served as inspiration for both parks’ birdhouse initiatives. As with that event, several prominent architects were invited to design birdhouses, and Grammy-winning movie music supervisor Randall Poster played cohost. The event was something of a revival of For the Birds, which opened at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last summer. ![]() It was a poignant way to make my passage to Party in the Park: Birdsong Brackenridge, a fundraising gala for the Brackenridge Park Conservancy organized by Suzanne Mathews, director of the San Antonio–based architectural lighting manufacturer Lucifer Lighting. ![]() The music’s murmuring ambient strains vaulted my consciousness high above the rushing traffic, up to where a flotilla of fluffy white clouds sailed peacefully through the azure sky. To alleviate the mounting anxiety created by this onslaught of development-the road’s billboards scream out for attention-I played Brian Eno’s Discreet Music on the car stereo. ![]()
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