![]() Wilson said it best in this quote from the 1984 book Biophilia, “Every species is a magic well.”įind out when music changed us and the world and follow the Timeline. ![]() It seems that where there is life there is voice and where there is voice there is music. We are part of this living, breathing planet. We often forget that we are mammals, animals as well. Mâche’s words make me consider the exceptionalism that we, as humans, have had concerning our own musicality. Mâche wrote these words in the book Music, Myth and Nature, ”If it turns out that music is a widespread phenomenon in several living species apart from man, this will very much call into question the definition of music, and more widely that of man and his culture.” The term was coined in 1983 by the French composer François-Bernard Mâche. I was excited to learn that there’s a growing field of research around non-human music-making called zoomusicology. ![]() Scientists have known for a long time that plants vibrate in response to outside stimulus, but in a 2019 study it was revealed that some plants actually emit a high-frequency squeal in response to stress, like drought, or even getting cut or harvested. No, this isn’t the sound of a vibrating cell phone, it’s the call of a toadfish used for warning and for mating.Įven plants have a voice. ![]()
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