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) |
