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

The esteemed music supervisor enlisted stars similar to 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, different 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 aware of all of the birdsong round us,” Poster advised the Guardian. “Also, throughout a time when a lot was unknown and darkish, searching the window and watching nature’s creatures continuing to thrive was comforting.”

It was also inspiring. For Poster, one of many movie world’s most outstanding music supervisors who has labored with directors like Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes, the hoots and caws of birds inspired him, and the undertaking’s government producer Rebecca Reagan, to ask their wide selection of musical contacts if they’d be taken with creating their very own odes to aviary life.