Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds. In this animated short, he visualizes two recorded bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (beeldengeluid.nl) in Hilversum.

The Nightingale & Canary video was produced to inspire creative industries professionals to submit their own projects to a Europe-wide re-use competition, organised by the Europeana Creative project [europeanacreative.eu]. All submitted projects make use of archival material available via Europeana (europeana.eu), Europe's gateway to digitized cultural heritage.

The video is part of Sound Connections (bit.ly/1wD3hsn), one of 5 pilots developed within the Europeana Creative project (bit.ly/1xgUxTW).

This video was made possible with co-funding from the European Union, through the ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme