A Duck in a Tree 2013-03-09 | The Moment Before the Word

The 35th of a weekly series of radio programmes created by :zoviet*france: for Basic.fm. First broadcast 9 March 2013. The playlist for this week’s show was put together while walking along a path suggested by the scientific paper, ‘The emergence of hierarchical structure in human language’.

Based on research by its authors, Shigeru Miyagawa, Robert C Berwick and Kazuo Okanoya, this describes how human language may have developed in part from the same evolutionary origins as birdsong.

http://scienceblog.com/60506/how-human-language-could-have-evolved-from-birdsong/ Our thanks go out to the artists and sound recordists included here for their fine work. track list 01 Fedor Tau - Khoomei 02 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Gamme de la Voix — Vocal Scale 03 Ghédalia Tazartes - Il regalo della befana -Part III [extract] 04 Atom Earth Mother - Believe in Me 05 Chris Watson - Lemon Rumped Tinkerbird 06 The Babenzélé Pygmies - Women Off to Gather Payu 07 Vasilii Khuurak - Imitation of Owl 08 :zoviet*france: - untitled ['Russian Heterodoxical Songs' track 5] 09 :zoviet*france: - untitled [February – March 1988 track 03] 10 Graham Dangerfield, Peter Scott - Superb Starling, Grey Hornbill 11 Singcircle / Gregory Rose - Stimmung, Model 1, Warming Up, Leading to Model 1 [Karlheinz Stockhausen] 12 Włodzimierz Borowski, Andrejz Mitan, Cezary Staniszewski, Tomasz Wilmanski - Ptaki 2 13 Huun-Huur-Tu - Fantasy on the Igil 14 [unknown sound recordist] - Lapwing Display Flight with Calls and Wingbeats 15 Ben Ponton - Mixing Mixing It 16 :zoviet*france: - Scene 2 [extract] 17 [unknown sound recordist] - Nightjar 18 [unknown sound recordist / BBC] - Willow Warbler Song, with Distant Cuckoo 19 :zoviet*france: - Angel's Pin Number 20 Sheila Chandra - Shehnai Song