Away with the Birds: a digital landscape of birds, mimesis and song

An interview with Hanna Tuulikki by Rob St John In 2014, a group of ten women performed a new vocal composition inspired by birds, Gaelic music and the landscape of the Isle of Canna, a small island off the west coast of Scotland. The performers – each dressed in costumes inspired in part by the plumage of waders such as the redshank and oystercatcher – sang together in the water of the island’s harbour, on the shoreline and on a floating, skein-shaped jetty.