Whole Music--Interspecies Music
currently unpublished seek publisher Here is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of Whole Music (Soul Food for the Mind Body Spirit). I wrote this chapter based on my fascination with interspecies music. My fascination began when I read one of Masaru Emoto's water crystal books in 2006. If water has consciousness and registered vibrations with words and music, what else was possible? This is not a Bugs Bunny Cartoon Those of us brought up with logic-brain thinking and whose parents told us that we have an overactive imagination, will feel at odds with the interspecies music. On one hand, jamming with animals feels like an enchanted dream come true. On the other hand, we feel kind of silly taking our instruments to a city park to play duets with songbirds. However, David Rothenberg who has jammed with whales and cicadas after first exploring wild bird jazz recommends taking our instruments to the animal kingdom. Why not play music at a zoo? “It shou...