Dominik Grünbühel has been creating live- and video work since 2002. He is a founding member of the award winning klezmer - punk band Nifty´s. He trained as a dancer in Vienna and London (London Contemporary Dance School) and has been a freelance dancer/performer for the last 10 years. Since 2008 he studies Digital Art at the University of Applied Art.

Each line in this song is a metaphor on death. For me, it is a positive song, defining death as a new beginning. The end of one phase and the start of a new one.

I was very intrigued by the notion of the mockingbird (deutsch: spottdrossel). This bird only exists in the America. They do not have their own song, but they copy (sample) other birds` songs and sounds around them. In north American literature it often comes up as a metaphor.  

'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.

They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs,

they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.

That's why it's a sin to kill a mocingbird.'

(Source: 'To Kill A Mocingbird', chapter 10. Harper Lee, 1960)

or in the lullaby 'Hush little baby...don´t say a word, papa´s gonna buy you a mockingbird'.

Credits: Green Grass - Tom Waits and Kathleen Waits-Brennan; Oh, Didn't He Ramble - William Christopher Handy; A traditional New Orleans funeral song, played as the procession returned from the burial site.

Dominik Grünbühel attends in NoTaFe with kind support from the Austrian Embassy in Tallinn.