Episode #4
Title: The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music
Guest: Dr. Hollis Taylor (University of Sydney)
Summary:
Violinist and composer, zoömusicologist and ornithologist Hollis Taylor joins us to discuss her ARC Future Fellowship project, ‘The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music’, which maps the transmission of pied butcherbird song from the area around Alice Springs, and uses this process of mapping as a way to think through some enduring questions about human exceptionalism, the nature of music, and musical animals. We also discuss the process of re-composition; Messiaen’s birdsong transcriptions; methods of fieldwork and working with birdsong recordings; and the challenges of multi-disciplinarity.
Want to know more? See:
· Hollis Taylor, Is Birdsong Music? Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).
· Hollis Taylor, “How Musical Are Animals? Taking Stock of Zoömusicology’s Prospects” Music Review Annual 1 (2020): 1-35.
· Websites:
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