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Migrant bird crisis

Cities and Memory

Jul 15, 20269:35Arts

This piece was inspired by a recording of a klaxon in Patton, PA that seemed to warn of nothing on a spring morning but the arrival of migrant birds. Patton klaxon sound reimagined by Xanthra DuFrane.

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