Tamas Dezsö’s work focuses on the Sierra Nevada mountain range, a site of the Californis forest fires. The artist has transcribed the alarm calls of a hundred birds in the Sierra Nevada on his triptych, using remaining pieces of charcoal he had collected from the redwoods. The trees had lived for up to several thousand years but they burnt, so we may say more precisely that he transcribed them with the calcified corpse, the dead body of the red trees, although the use of such words may seem unusual and sensational since they are not applied to other living beings apart from humans.
Dezsö has committed to paper the sounds the birds can probably no longer make in many cases, because before they could do that the fire reached them at an incredible speed. The artist records by hand the wave forms made by bird voices using software, thus creating a personal, sensory relationship with the individual voices of birds. These voices constitute the basis of the sound recording, through which they are transformed, distorted, mutated and become destroyed in and through the system of a modular synthesizer, namely a machine.