"Jose Arcadio Buendia in a short time set up a system of order and work which allowed for only one bit of license: the freeing of the birds, which, singht etime of the founding, and made time merry with their flutes, and installing their place muscial clocks in every house. They were wonderous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had traded for macaws and which Jose Arcadio Buendia had synchonized with such prcisiont hat ever half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song until it reached the climax of a noontime that was as exact and unamimous as a complete waltz."
Marquez is trying to convey that the town is becoming, or has already become completely planned out and artificial like the big city that Jose Arcadio Buendia desires so badly. Even little natural enjoyments like the chirping of birds can no longer be enjoyed spontaneously; they are replaced by coocoo-clocks, going of at a set time on a precise scale. The installment of these wooden birds and their artificial melodies, replacing free spirited innocence of real chirping birds, shows the industrialized, selfish path which Macondo had headed down. There is no more free spirit or raw, natural environment-- everything is scheduled, artificial, and lacking the unadulterated feel the town once possessed.
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