The art that can emerge and the ways that we practice in our adoration of this bird today will be held on as available for that generation to experience as much as is possible in what the power of the nightingale was , if there ever becomes a “was.”

“It’s not the notes that matter; it’s the space around the notes that you leave. That’s what creates a deeper relationship with what you’re trying to express.”

You describe something about the way the nightingale sings, which was about silence, that there is as much power to the silence in the nightingale’s song as there is to the notes that it sings; and that it taught you about the great art of decorating silence, a phrase I like very much. I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit.

This is nature connection, elixir. I call it the kind of shot up the arm. The adrenaline hit of hearing musicians and birds in collaboration is a sensation like no others, and it’s quite a transformative experience. So I’ve created this sort of concert, but I think of it or as a ceremony for the birds that allows people to have an experience with... See more