Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over the past 100 years, Thai elephants have plummeted in number from roughly 100,000 ...

The Thai Elephant Orchestra is, remarkably, just what it sounds like. At a conservation center in Thailand, made for former work animals with nowhere to go, a group of elephants has been assembled and ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - The Thai Elephant Orchestra is about to release a third CD and, like all real artists, the world's only non-human musical ensemble doesn't give a thump about the ...

Dave Soldier talks about The Thai Elephant Orchestra that he helped set up with Richard Lair at a conservation centre in northern Thailand. They have built 22 giant instruments, all of which are ...

Columbia University’s David Sulzer is a neuroscientist who studies the inner workings of the brain and who also works with the pachyderms of the Thai Elephant Orchestra, recording and releasing three ...

Better than: doing it by the numbers. Manchester Orchestra and Cage the Elephant are described as “co-headliners” on their current cross-country tour. Normally, that tag doesn’t always make sense.

At a conservation center in Lampang, Thailand, one American musician has taken the role of conductor for a very special musical ensemble – an “elephant orchestra” that makes music with specially ...

It was a magical and historic night for indie-rock. For the first time in more than a decade, the founding members of the widely adored and influential Elephant 6 Collective, including Robert ...

Training an animal, Pavlov-style, to do human-designed tricks is one thing, but to have it come, voluntarily, to music practice is quite another. By John Burnside When I first heard about it, I ...

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The Thai Elephant Orchestra is, remarkably, just what it sounds like. At a conservation center in Thailand, made for former work animals with nowhere to go, a group of elephants has been assembled and ...