The Birds Belong to All of Us [HL:50606720]

This piece for wordless voice and small ensemble was composed as part of Ellen Reid's Soundwalk, a site-specific work created for urban parks around the world. The title comes from Christian Cooper, a black birdwatcher whose confrontation with a white dogwalker in Central Park, New York, in 2020 made headlines around the world and on social media. In the piece, Reid�s music imitates the birdsong of the various species that Cooper listed in an interview with her, the final words of the interview giving the work its title.