Feb 3rd. Animals as listeners

Reading:

• Kriengwatana, Buddhamas P./Nager, Ruedi G./South, Alex/Ullrich, Martin/Doolittle, Emily L. (2025): „Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals’ responses to music“. Animal Behaviour. 221, S. 123074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123074.

Browse through these examples:

• Joe Jones: Dog Symphony
  • »FLUX Fest Information« (Supplement to Film Culture 43, 1966), repr. in: Happening & Fluxus. Materialien, ed. by Sohm/Koelnischer Kunstverein, unpaginated.
• Annika Kahrs: Playing to the birds
  
  • http://www.annikakahrs.com/, https://www.44moen.dk/en/exhibition/playing-to-the-birds-2 (The actual film is not publicly available.)
  • Weingartner, Sabine (2013): „Playing to the Birds, 2013. Le Hameau, 2012. Sunst – Sunrise, 2011“. In: Annika Kahrs, ed. by Sabine Weingartner München, p. 4, 10.
• Marek Brandt: Music for Animals
  
  • Jahn, Andrea (2014): Marek Brandt. Music for Animals. 24/01/2014–23/03/2014. Saarbrücken: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken.
  • Fischer, Tobias (2015): „An ideal audience. The work of Marek Brandt & David Teie“. In: Fischer, Tobias and Lara Cory: Animal music: sound and song in the natural world. London, S. 131–138.
  • https://www.marek-brandt.de/mfa/music_for_animals_wildcats_2014.html