kurkı - Martha (Lyric Video)

kurkı - Martha is the shared winner of Åbo Akademi University Foundation’s 'Vox Quercus' composition competition 2022. Man managed to eradicate the world's most common bird, the passenger pigeon, by hunting it to extinction. The last known passenger pigeon was called Martha, who lived in the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States. Martha died in 1914. "Martha" is a story of faith in the ability to influence and change the world for better. Flourishing soil feeds our children and birds. Children are the future. Finnish botanist Pehr Kalm's (1716-1779) effort to promote the coexistence of man and nature through scientific means is also heard in the work. Pehr Kalm has conducted a study on the breeding biology of passenger pigeons that is still considered significant. The soundscape and rhythm of the piece is based on the sounds of melting ice recorded in an old abandoned railway tunnel in Halikko, Finland. The sounds have been carefully programmed and appear in many different forms, as a