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Listening to nonhumans: What music can teach about humanity’s relationships with nature and the divine

By Jeffers Engelhardt, Professor of Music, Amherst College

As someone who teaches and researches music and religion, I’ve always been curious about inspiration and how it connects humans to other beings.

Musicians can be inspired by great artists, living and dead; by technologies that expand their experience, like artist Brian House’s macrophones that capture low-frequency infrasound; by plants…

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