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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Have you ever noticed feeling calmer when you hear a bird song outside your window or while you're walking down the

street. Birds often sing only when they feel safe. And as it turns out, our connection to this

sound and to acknowledging safety may very well come from our ancient evolutionary wiring.

In this talk and performance, London-born rapper and musical ecologist Louis V.I.

argues that humans are hardwired to nature's many sonic languages, yet modern life has drowned

them out. While recording rainforests from the Amazon to the Caribbean, he discovered the overwhelming

chorus of aliveness, as he puts it, that we've

stopped hearing. He shares why this crisis of inattention is at the heart of rising anxiety

and the planet's climate breakdown, and why relearning to listen isn't a luxury but essential

to our collective survival.

We humans have stopped listening.

Wow, you all really listen to that.

But it's true.

There's a language out there that we all know how to communicate really quite well,

but we've tuned out of, when we're innately fluent in yet forgotten how to hear. I truly believe the key to solving many of our crises as humans

is re-learning to listen to this language. What I'm talking about is the sounds of nature. I want to

take you all somewhere real quick if that's all right. I want you to close your eyes a sec and make a mental note of how you feel right now.

You can be happy from the week, stressed, it is a Wednesday in the middle of the week,

charmed already from my London accent, or annoyed by it.

Just be honest, now close your eyes and open your ears.

Hmm. How do you feel? Different, right? A bit better, maybe slightly more relaxed. You were just transported to West Papua. That beautiful melody was a hooded butcher bird,

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