Cowbird sets photos to song

'Listen to this photograph," Aaron Huey wrote to his friends on Facebook.

The National Geographic photojournalist was not conflating technologies. A link to the new site Cowbird opened onto a huge black-and-white photograph of two women bending and curving their bodies toward each other. Between their outstretched arms, more women crowd on a couch, one mid-guitar-strum. As soon as the page opens, an audio track begins to play. The melancholy voices sing a ballad, as a guitar is strummed slowly in the background.

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