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it's hard to come up with anything novel
in music there's only a limited number
of
notes but within that what a tremendous
amount of creativity people can give to
each
other there can be moments of Discovery
in music one that's really obvious is
when we try to teach El to play music
these elephants they used to work in the
logging industry in Thailand logging is
is actually illegal in Thailand now
Richard Lair who's an American helped to
start the Tha elephant Conservation
Center I went to Thailand and he said
you know elephants like music everybody
who lives with elephants knows that but
would they play music and uh I built a
giant marima and in about half an hour
an elephant learned to play
it the way that we conduct this elephant
Orchestra is we just tell the elephants
which instruments to play so you know I
say start and stop I'll do this and then
some of the elephants know that means
stop and they'll drop the stick and
sometimes you go stop stop stop and they
know you're telling them to stop and
they keep playing this will sound nuts
but they're playing a joke they think
it's
funny
well to me the elephant music sounds
like an elephant walking in in the
forest a gentle thoughtful kind of sound
and they kind of seem to soak into every
sound in the
note sometimes it gets angry too and you
know elephants can have a temper some of
them can have a very bad temper I'm
afraid they can also be very loving and
very
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sweet there's three elephant records now
pure elephant music it's exactly what
they play in real
time the reason I decided to do it was
CU it was a chance to hang out with
elephants they're they're about the most
amazing creatures you can imagine
they're 10,000 lb they're really smart
and unless you're out there and spend a
little time with them you can't believe
the skills they
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have
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