The story goes, when a phone becomes obsolete and no longer useful for human hands, the musical ghosts of extinct birds haunt it. They were displaced by dams and mines, oil wells and gas plants to find no other coordinate. Their musicality now lives in samples archived by museums online. When a phone is discarded, the dead birds reclaim it as a nest. Here, in this devices, inhabit: Po’ouli, endemic to Hawaii, declared extinct in 2019. Glaucous Macaw, South America in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, declared Critically endangered-possibly extinct in 2018. Slender-billed Curlew, bred in Russia and migratory towards the Mediterranean as well as Southern Arabia, declared Critically endangered-possibly extinct. Pink headed duck, once found in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar is feared extinct since the 1950s. Kaua’i ‘o’o, endemic to Hawaii and last of the Mohoidae avian family, was declared extinct in 2023. Presented at the VögelKlang Festival 2024, as part of the Global Forest Residency, in the Black Forest, Germany, using the LDSP environment for hacked Android phones. You can see the code and use it here: https://github.com/victorzappi/LDSP/
