nightingales fascinate professor david rothenberg a musician and philosopher who has concerned himself with the relationship between humanity in one for most of his professional life he's here in berlin because he likes to jam with nightingales of which there are many in the city at this time of year it join me in a minute but 1st let's hear a short clip from his documentary. the biggest thing is to not play this listen this in most of the time. the space to take is something we've never heard before. and this is the accompanying book to go with the documentary film use or just

a short clip of david rothenberg is here with me in the studio so 1st of all i have to ask you david why didn't i think flocked to this city they're meant to flock to barkley square if people know the song but they they really do flocked above it in recent years berlin is full of nightingales and it's the 2nd biggest city in europe it's rather astonishing. and i think it has to do with the fact that there's a lot of greenery in this city and a lot of unkempt greenery in the parks is a kind of shaggy kind of brush next to the ground and this is where they live rather. whereas in more elegantly trim and manicured parks the nightingales would have nowhere to go but in berlin they fit in with the shagging yeah i mean we must despise the myth that they are melodious it's not is actually they're not very melodic. but they sing in the dark nightingales now why is it that they sing

in the night good question in a way scientists say they're not really sure why except they get the opportunity to communicate without any conflicting bird sounds it's all kinds of human partying sounds and trains noise but they have the natural acoustic spectrum all to themselves where they can fill the night the night air with these along credibly drawn out songs they can sing for hours and hours at a time why do they need to do that other birds make do with a song it's just you know it's like do or says this is you but the nightingale is just beginning when it will be you know for sure now you're you're a musician you're clarinetist and a jazz musician so you have improvise and we did see a little bit of improvise asian there but we'd like to do a 1st on television if we may we have gone some nights ago sam's and if you would

pick up your clarinet if you were ready you ready to i'm ready for this we're going to have a bit of improvised patients. you wonderful wonderful stuff thank you so much while you get your breath let's just hear begin to hear a very short clip with again from the documentary just a few seconds of when there are more musicians playing with you you know with a night again we could see that.

you. do you think i mean it maybe is too big a question but is this where music originally comes from from nature did prehistoric man hear these sounds and sort of try and build menstruate to it imitate it is that the way you think it is of course i mean humanity evolved in the context of these musicians from other species who've been making music literally for millions of years wrong. you know this is the oldest most classical music there must be something right about it the birds do it for millions of years and do you believe you all communicate with the 90 and go well i believe that the nightingales are making music and i'm making music with them like trying to reach beyond what our species can do alone and make a kind of music that takes 2 species to create now nightingales the only music

partners you have now let's have an example with whales this is extra i find this extraordinary the abolition. airmen. that was a really nice chance they just think by the way they've run a hard but thank you very much for being willing so it's doing this thing thanks for inviting steve loring at large to chill out it's

a connection between the everyone should go out and hear these nightingales for themselves if they're here in berlin otherwise just where everyone listen to whatever creatures are singing around your face is thanks for inviting. the. some of the best preserved archaeological sites of the ancient world this is mainly because it's largely been uninhabited for thousands of years except the occasional archaeologist and day trippers visiting the sacred places now greece is contemporary arts organization known as commission the british sculptor antony gormley to have the 1st ever sit aside the existing ancient. greek mythology was the birthplace of the date and. now scattered ancient ruins and sculptures stand. is an expression by antony gormley this called side and it's being developed across the island so we

have 29 sculptures. commissions specially made to. correspond with the history of specific sites. on the. first time since 5000 years ago but. takes up a new narrative on the island. who won the prestigious premium imperial 2013 is known for among other things he's an outdoor sculpture they encouraged us to focus on the surroundings rather than distracting from. the project has been a special one well it's extraordinary privilege but also responsibility to be the 1st artist. living up to being on this island for over 2000. but at the same time. what an extraordinary place. to think

about the human project in general. and then a way. for me this is this isn't an exhibition called a conversation about. bad attitude towards the project is what convinced authorities of the local department of antiquities was the right person to entrust with the commission. as a world famous sign where the visitors come to the island and it's like time travel . was through this artistic creation of antony gormley the visitors a new way of reading the past. is of an exchange reaching across the millennia between the modern and the ancient visitors have until the end of october to take part in the conversation. now when the

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