Unidentified Sound Object: The Murder of Crows: a sound installation is a web library about theory and application of new technologies (with a look at the past) in the areas of Sound-on-film, electronic music, sound design, immersive environments, sound synthesis, digital signal processing. ...Kat's Journey to Success: A Murder of Crows...A Blizzard of Buzzards What do you call a flock of buzzards? This picture was taken by my friend Waldo Schmidlpt of an old tree by the cemetery that was just filled with buzzards. An eerie bird at best, but when hanging out in a gang like this, ... a murder of crows, a knot of toads… wtf? eric and i were talking about a simpsons episode where homer was talking about a “murder of crows.” we weren’t sure if that was real, or just a homer-ism, so we looked it up. turns out that not only is a group of crows called a “murder” ... there's a murder of crows, a mob of kangaroos, a ... there's a murder of crows, a mob of kangaroos, a shrewdness of apes, and a dishonesty of politicians. after reading this story about a group of sharks, i looked for what a group of sharks was called. no luck. ... a murder of crows, a stool of pigeons (ew). i think i spent far too much time this summer watching csi reruns. um. (that and half the answers for various questions -- such as method of murder and disposal of the body -- sort of grossed me out. i couldn't do half of those things. ... |