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Music as a Bridge Between Species and Self

Music as a Bridge Between Species and Self

You Make My Heart Sing

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Birds respond to his clarinet playing in different ways

Picture yourself on a sun warmed blanket beneath an oak, guitar humming softly. A calf sighs beside you, eyelids drifting shut to the slow pulse of your chords.

Or imagine Debussy’s Clair de Lune unfurling from an upright piano deep in a Thai sanctuary, the notes hanging in humid air as an 80 year old elephant rests her trunk against the lacquered wood and simply listens.

These scenes aren’t just heart-warming vignettes for social media, they are invitations into a deeper ecological dialogue that speaks to the mind, the senses, and the soul

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