‘Like them, we’re fragile’: how Randall Poster assembled his star-packed birdsong project

The esteemed music supervisor enlisted stars resembling Mark Ronson, Nick Cave, Beck, Sean Penn and Tilda Swinton for an formidable new challenge

Within the early days of Covid, when lockdowns held tight, even the loudest cities fell into silence. With all that clamor cleared away, other sounds crammed the air. For New York City native Randall Poster, probably the most enchanting of them got here from the hawks, cuckoos and warblers that would finally be heard above the din. “Amid the quiet, I turned more conscious of all of the birdsong around us,” Poster advised the Guardian. “Additionally, during a time when a lot was unknown and darkish, searching the window and watching nature’s creatures continuing to thrive was comforting.”

It was additionally inspiring. For Poster, one of many movie world’s most outstanding music supervisors who has worked with directors like Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes, the hoots and caws of birds impressed him, and the challenge’s government producer Rebecca Reagan, to ask their wide selection of musical contacts in the event that they’d be desirous about creating their own odes to aviary life.