THREE THOUSAND SONGS is a musical project that takes as its point of departure a bird known to hold the largest vocal repertoire in the avian world – an archive built not through invention, but through imitation as a form of essential renewal. It centres on the idea that the mimicry and borrowing of sounds and expressions from our surrounding environment – along with their later reconfiguration – shape and inform our own. This project explores new ways of expression through ongoing research into improvisation, repetition, and transformation, where imitation and originality blur and authorship is brought into question.