{"id":5306,"date":"2023-07-25T17:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2024-07-20T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:42:04","slug":"2023-waiata-a-nga-manu-birds-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=5306","title":{"rendered":"2023 Waiata a nga manu | Birds Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Waiata a nga manu: Birds Song\u00a0 | 2024<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Festival: 2023 Takapuna Winter Lights<br \/>\nDate: 27 &#8211; 30 July 2023<br \/>\nMedia: Digital Animation | 03:01:00, 30.00fps, 1080\u00d71080 + Digital Soundscape<br \/>\nSite: Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand<br \/>\nVisionscape: \u00a92023 by Daniel K. Brown<br \/>\nSoundscape: \u00a92023 by Mark K. Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Waiata a nga manu | Birds Song was specially commissioned for the Takapuna Winter Lights Festival, on Hurstmere Road in Takapuna, from 27-30 July 2023. Waiata a nga manu\u2013which means \u201cBirds Song\u201d in te reo M\u0101ori\u2013showcases the magical world of New Zealand&#8217;s colourful birdlife. And who better to provide the vision for this world than pre-school children from Campbell\u2019s Bay Early Learning Centre (3-5 years old) and Takapuna Primary School (5-10 years old). The world of Waiata a nga manu continually changes, bringing the children\u2019s drawings to life in one magical forest realm after another.<\/p>\n<p>As a way to give back to the Takapuna community, the starting point for Waiata a nga manu was about finding a way to enable Takapuna\u2019s youngest children to participate in the magical realm of Winter Lights, not just as visitors but as contributing artists. Imagine the thrill of a pre-schooler seeing their own drawings brought to life in dazzling arrays of animated colour! The music and the magical realm of the forest for Waiata a nga manu were composed and created by Mark K. Johnson, while the animations of the children&#8217;s drawings were created by Daniel Brown. The vision for Waiata a nga manu has been proudly handed over to the sense of wonder and magic held by the youngest members of our Auckland community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiata a nga manu: Birds Song\u00a0 | 2024 Festival: 2023 Takapuna Winter Lights Date: 27 &#8211; 30 July 2023 Media: Digital Animation | 03:01:00, 30.00fps, 1080\u00d71080 + Digital Soundscape Site: Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand Visionscape: \u00a92023 by Daniel K. Brown Soundscape: \u00a92023 by Mark K. Johnson Waiata a nga manu | Birds Song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[379],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}