# The Music of Nature

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Milton Mermikides
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment, Astronomy and space, Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/music-nature)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Do animals make music? Are the languages of whales and birds truly songs? To answer this, we must first understand what we mean by music as human animals—and how it might emerge across the animal kingdom. From Messiaen’s transcriptions of bird calls to the rhythmic gaits of horses echoing in the blues, we’ll hear how animal behaviours form an unwitting orchestra and explore whether music is uniquely human or a shared language with our animal cousins.

## Lectures

1. [Music of Animals](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-music-nature/a154cee0c95e) (Audio)
2. [Music of Light and Colour](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-music-nature/42ba6f142e32) (Audio)
3. [Music of Earth and Space](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-music-nature/4b04da8717b2) (Audio)
4. [Music of the Mind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-music-nature/cd34bdd96994) (YouTube)
5. [Music of the Body](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-music-nature/fc12eb22f295) (Audio)
6. [Music of Sleep and Dreams](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-music-nature/8e77358302ff) (Audio)