Musician jams with whales

Must we reduce all non-human vocalizations to some rudimentary "code"? Human songs convey information, too, but their music still has a life of its own, beauty we experience immediately and which enhances the communication of the song's "information." Why should that be different for whales or birds? The effects music has in our own brains go far deeper than the neocortex into very primitive regions we share with other animals. And we know that many animals respond with pleasure to human music.

hey con, i like what u said, but i wd remind u that our own brain is the same as other mammals with the exception of our precious pre-frontal lobes. we respond with the same areas of the brain present in all other mammals and reptiles. The reptilian brain from which ours has evolved is still there. Whales may well make music, but their 'song' may be no more than artifactual info; no human definitions really apply. Considering Japs eat them with relish i don't think they have much 2 sing about!