Forgotten Songs proved immensely popular with Sydneysiders and visitors alike, transforming Angel Place with the sound of birdsong and transporting those that traversed the laneway back in time to listen to these forgotten songs on a daily basis.
Forgotten Songs commemorates the songs of fifty birds once heard in central Sydney, before they were gradually forced out by European settlement. The calls, which filter down from the canopy of birdcages suspended above Angel Place, change as day shifts to night; the daytime birds’ songs disappearing with the sun, and those of the nocturnal birds, which inhabited the area, sounding into the evening.
Today, Forgotten Songs remains one of Sydney’s most loved works of public art.
