"Andrew Pink, who has created the soundscore for Bird Song could doubtless spin and tweak an orchestra of irresistible glee out of Davies's own chuckles. As it is, he's spent months sourcing, adjusting, composing layers of sound. ''And silence,'' he tells me. ''Silence became part of the selection process and part of the work I was doing as well.'' interview Glasgow Herald. See the full interview here

"Sound composer Andy Pink embedded this natural sound in a music collage of competing and unrelated sounds (jackhammers and train brakes, among other industrial noises) that allowed Davies to respond to "sounds that would shock me in some form. I don't mean shock in an antagonistic way but drive me out of the normal." Janet anderson Philadelphia City paper

"Bird Song's choreography was firmly rooted in Andy Pink's captivating collage of conventional and electronic music built around the cry of the Australian pied butcher bird. The lightness and variety of the soundscape oblige the movement to change mood and tempo to match - a positively reactionary concept in some new dance circles." Louise Levene The Sunday Telegraph

"And, just as Andy Pink's effective synthesized score seems to have taken the bird's call as its starting point, so Davies's vibrant choreography seems to evolve as a dark fantasy on a loosely ornithological theme. Mark Monahan The Daily Telegraph"

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