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These Zebra Finches Can Play Better Guitar Than You

Watch fifty birds perform an original composition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Remember that guitar you begged your parents for at the age of ten that's now sitting in the corner of your childhood bedroom unplayed? You're probably feeling pretty guilty about it now, and so you should be: even birds can play guitar better than you.

An art installation called from hear to eardebuted at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this week, and it features 50 zebra finches from Central Australia performing original compositions on a dozen Gibson Les Paul guitars and Gibson Thunderbird basses.

Of course, I'm using perform rather liberally here. In this video from Radio-Canada, the birds fly around the makeshift aviary, and when they land on the strings of the electrical guitars and basses, the sounds they produce sound sort of like music.

Imagine a new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, but made by birds.

The "living and ephemeral work" was created by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, and is actually in its 19th iteration (it premiered at MoMA PS1 in 1999). If you're in Montreal anytime soon, you can check it out until March 27, 2016.