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What if the calm you feel when you hear birdsong isn’t a coincidence, but ancient evolutionary wiring … a signal that once meant safety? Musical ecologist and rapper Louis VI says humans are hardwired to nature’s sonic language, but modern life has drowned it out. He explores how we can tap back into the “overwhelming…

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What if the calm you feel when you hear birdsong isn’t a coincidence, but ancient evolutionary wiring … a signal that once meant safety? Musical ecologist and rapper Louis VI says humans are hardwired to nature’s sonic language, but modern life has drowned it out. He explores how we can tap back into the “overwhelming chorus of aliveness” we’ve stopped hearing — and performs “Butcherbird,” an original song syncing with the melody of bird calls from West Papua.

5 Comments

  1. @gregGould

    June 6, 2026 at 11:15 am

    This reminds me of the beautiful recording of the bird from Hawaii that was the last of its species and was calling out for a mate but received no answer because there were no more living. It is now extinct. Sad.

    • @skyejacques

      June 6, 2026 at 2:21 pm

      @gregGould 😭😭😭😭

  2. @Joi-w3r

    June 6, 2026 at 11:52 am

    Facts ❤!!!!

  3. @keep_walking_on_grass

    June 6, 2026 at 2:59 pm

    Music is a miracle. People stopped thinking about what’s actually going on. Because they are so familiar to it. That is a mistake. Nothing else can change our mood and emotions as music can, instantly. No pills can do it nothings else has that mighty power over our emotions and mood. Music is a mysterious language. Of human emotions and mood. What Mozart composed hundreds of years ago, had the same effect on the mood of the listeners back then, as it has today. Morning mood by Edward Grieg. Listen to that. It conveys a feeling, the same feeling on every every listener. Hundreds of years in between. That is the definition of a language. Music is a mysterious, magical language.

  4. @tasmanparaone5107

    June 6, 2026 at 4:20 pm

    “listening requires embodied respect”

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