KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Interspecies Music

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1975.09.17

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

88 min

Dates

1975-09-17 | broadcast
| 1975-09-17 | created

Description

For many years, Jim Nollman has explored the limits of human-animal communication. Along the way he has made some highly provocative tapes. In this program he talks with Charles Amirkhanian and introduces his recordings, including his now famous “Turkey Song”, in which human slide whistlers perform a call-and-response improvisation with the flock of gobblers at the Willy Bird Farm. Also heard is a recording of a colony of kangaroo rats and wild burros, made during a recent visit to Death Valley. The program concludes with Jim and Charles taking calls from the audience and we hear a number of stories of human-animal duets, be it playing a harmonica with a dog or playing the bagpipes with a flock of geese. (from KPFA Folio)

Musical Selections

Music with Kangaroo Rats and Burros / Jim Nollman -- Music with Turkeys / Jim Nollman -- Turkey Song / Jim Nollman

Subjects

Animal sounds
Avant-garde (Music)
Ambient sounds
Human-animal communication
Kangaroo rats
Turkeys

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Nollman, Jim