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nightingales fascinate professor david rothenberg a musician and philosopher who has concerned himself with the relationship between humanity in one of the 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 in something you've never heard before. and this is the accompanying book to go with the documentary film used or just
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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 say goes flock to this city they're meant to flock to buckley 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 than like. 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
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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 as all kinds of human partying sounds and trains noise but they have the 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 that's just a few notes like 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 your clarinetist in a jazz musician so you're. 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 nightingale sounds and if you would
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pick up your plan or if you're ready you ready to i'm ready for this well we're going to have a bit of improvise ation. 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 with a night again we could see.
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you. do you think i mean it maybe is too big a question but is this where music regionally 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. this is the oldest most classical music we know it there must be something right about it the birds do it for millions of years and do you believe you are communicating with the 19 go live 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
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partners you have now let's have an example with whales this is extra i find this extraordinary that i have a list. 6 that was a really nice chance they just think by the way david we've run out of hard but thank you very much for being willing so late sharing this thing takes for vikings flooring and logistical outs
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a connection between the 2 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 greek. some of the best preserved archaeological sites of the ancient world this is maybe 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 sculptures ever to sit aside the existing ancient. greek mythology was the birthplace of the date and. now scattered ancient ruins and sculptures stand. based on expansion by antony gormley this called site and it's being developed across the island so we
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have $29.00 sculptures. commissioned specially made to. correspond with the history of specific sites. on the. first time since 5000 years ago an artist takes up a new narrative on the island. who won the prestigious premium imperialis in 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
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about the human project in general. and then a way. for me. this isn't an exhibition this is. a conversation about. bad attitude towards the project is what convinced authorities at the local department of antiquities was the right person to entrust with the commission. of. a world famous where the visitors come to the island and it's like time travel. was through this artistic creation of antony gormley to offer visitors a new way of reading the past. but it. is of an exchange reaching across the millennia between the modern and the ancient visitors happen till the end of october to take part in the conversation. now when the
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british queen appears in public she always wears a hat and often brightly colored fly these artificial flowers come from a small company in a village an address in eastern germany the company also provides top fashion houses in hollywood movies with. and get old style may not look like typical to your customers but the top fashion houses like to your depend on them. mr and mrs style have produced artificial flowers at their factory in a student germany flower was sought after by top designers. they regularly show their collection at trade fairs like this one in paris. all the flowers a handful and. all but i don't think there is a collection as biggest this anywhere in the world. or one that is on so many
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crowned heads the british royal family especially loves the striking hat creations . and it's the flowers that often grab the most attention but even small flowers can have a big impact daisy's a very popular at the moment. i think we're the only ones in the world who have the right equipment to make these cuts that it's. far away from the fashion capitals time seems to be still at their workshop new tristen. each bloom individually by hand just as they would have more than a century ago. very few people in the world have this know how and that has its price these roses cost $80.00 euros a piece the most difficult step is dying of fabrics i just ask customers who
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include star designer philip treacy a very demanding. philip treacy by philip treacy makes his hat to match the color i dyed the flowers he does a lot for the duchess of cornwall command it's mostly rosé on to they say a color like this makes a face beautiful and i think one can confirm that with camilla by coming back amongst 50. flowers or even in demand with costume designers in hollywood do you really think that nice to see you jacket particular interest to you might scully displacement. with the fantasy or drama the shires flowers set the turning off in the shires find out only by chance which celebrities of wearing their flowers although the order books are full they have their eyes on retirement and they're hoping to pass the business on to a successor while it's still in full bloom. for
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this edition of arts and culture more on the web site at www dot. com slash culture all musical nightingales all those and soon a gold leaf sculptures and also on the cam film festival that is on the way i will be reporting on not quite a lot in the next 10 days but for now for me and all the crew here above and.
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