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	Rummage Through The Crevices: Animals Archives
		To get you in the mood, here’s two pieces from one of the groups who were featured in the first episode of the series — The Thai Elephant Orchestra.
		The members of the orchestra are residents of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, which does invaluable work rescuing elephants from punishing domestic servitude Ideally, these rescued elephants should be released into the wild, but thanks to human encroachment on their former environments, this is supposedly not a viable option.
		And if you want hear more of the Thai Elephant Orchestra, you can purchase their CD from Mulatta Records.
	www.filmcement.org /rummage/archives/cat_animals.html (883 words)

	Thai Elephant Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's a project of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, a government facility in which domestic elephants are making the transition from forest workers to interspecies ambassadors.
		The overall sound is that of a spacy gamelon orchestra, but as producer Lair's lively notes make clear, the elephant players were not just banging randomly.
		The disc includes 12 pieces played by the Elephant Orchestra (with humans cueing the start and stop on each instrument, but the elephants choosing all the notes and rhythms), along with six tracks involving more human collaboration and a burst of pure elephant vocalization.
	www.earthear.com /catalog/thaielephant.html (242 words)

	SAVING THE THAI ELEPHANT: A NEW HOPE FOR ELEPHANT CONSERVATION - Introducing THE NATIONAL ELEPHANT INSTITUTE (NEI): ...
		A total of 72 elephants were acquired by the project to serve, for example, as release animals, as breeders, as retired animals, and animals to be trained for appropriate work.
		The 'working elephants' at the National Elephant Institute/Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang Province participate in a variety of fund-raising activities in order to generate much-needed funds to support a range of medical and welfare services that are made available to other elephants in need of health and medical care and other assistance.
		Elephant painting began at the Center 1998 when under the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project, select elephants at the centre were taught to paint.
	www.tatnews.org /others/1785.asp (1591 words)

	jammin elephants (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The band is the brainchild of Richard Lair, an American expatriate who has worked with elephants for 23 years and written an encyclopedic United Nations study of Asia's captive elephants, and David Sulzer, a neurologist who heads Columbia University's Sulzer Laboratory and works as a composer and producer under the name Dave Soldier.
		Together they organized six young pachyderm at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, a former government logging camp near the town of Lampang, where elephants now earn their keep by giving rides, demonstrating logging skills and painting pictures for tourists.
		Elephants should not be "incarcerated and made to do slave labor," he writes in the new CD's liner notes.
	www.deeplistening.org /pipermail/deep-l/2002-May/003243.html (1017 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Thailand's musical elephants
		A remarkable achievement, especially considering Phong is an elephant, living at a conservation centre near the northern Thai town of Lampang.
		The world's first elephant orchestra was formed here two years ago and is now busy recording its second CD, deep in the lush countryside.
		Deforestation and the banning of logging have removed the elephants' chief source of employment, while over the years hunters have decimated the population.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2190196.stm (541 words)

	[ Mulatta Records ]
		Elephants in the Thai jungle playing specially designed musical instruments.
		The Thai Elephant Orchestra was co-founded by Richard Lair of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang and performer/composer Dave Soldier.
		The first CD Thai Elephant Orchestra includes a twelve page color booklet that details the beginning of the project and features the orchestra's first performances.
	www.mulatta.org /thaieleorch.html (131 words)

	[ Dave Soldier ]
		The orchestra gives the elephants a pleasant activity they enjoy, brings public awareness to the first center devoted to elephant conservation - and as you will hear makes a lot of good music.
		This TEO was inspired by painters Komar and Melamid who collaborated with animals for years, starting with a dog in the 70’s in Russia.
		They started painting with elephants at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, which suggested to me and Richard, one of the Center’s directors, to see if elephants could play music, particularly as elephants like to listen to music.
	davesoldier.com /thaiorch.html (587 words)

	Save the Thai Elephant
		But the thai elephant is in danger and rely on conservation centers to care for their welfare and from being extinct.
		The elephant conservation centers and the elephants benefit from your purchases.
		I benefit cause this is a project I love, and I have helped the elephant conservation centers and elephants by rewarding you with a unique shopping portal.
	thaielephant.biz (290 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| News \| Dave Soldier and Richard Lair (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Director of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center (TECC) Richard Lair and musician/neurobiologist Dave Soldier came up with the idea of an elephant orchestra in 1999 during one of Lair's rare trips back home to the United States.
		Since the elephants at TECC must earn their keep entertaining tourists, the pair designed large-scale versions of traditional Thai instruments in an attempt to please the site's mostly Asian visitors.
		His compositional contribution was limited to cueing the mahout trainers to start and stop the elephant players at appropriate moments during a particular piece.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/2001-05-24/rotations.html (570 words)

	Sounding Circle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Thai Elephant orchestra was co-founded by Richard Lair of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang and performer/composer Dave Soldier.
		In the 20 years since a Syracuse zookeeper first encouraged an elephant's artistic impulses, pachyderm paintings have become fundraising fixtures at zoos.
		Its members play sturdier versions of traditional Thai instruments -- slit drums, a gong hammered from a sawmill blade, a diddly-bow bass and xylophone-like renats -- and a thundersheet and harmonicas.
	soundingcircle.com /newslog2.php/__show_day/_w2003-10-10 (1298 words)

	Jami Sieber \| Hidden Sky
		Born of her profound meeting with the elephants in Thailand and the musical language that joined them, this ground-breaking CD opens a rare window onto an inner landscape that sings with reverence, joy and beauty.
		There she met Phong, the young elephant who played a xylophone (renat) and kissed her on the cheek with his trunk, and Prathida, the drummer, whose trunk followed the movement of the bow as Jami played.
		With them and the rest of the Elephant Orchestra, she experienced a mystical collaboration that awakened her to the inherent connection underlying all that appears separate.
	www.jamisieber.com /disc/sky.html (482 words)

	CD Baby: THAI ELEPHANT ORCHESTRA /DAVE SOLDIER / RICHARD LAIR: Elephonic Rhapsodies
		This CD is more tailored for children than the first, and explores the far reaches of what the ellies now perform, including lots of traditional Thai music, and even Beethoven (the Pastorale Symphony) and Hank Williams (Kaw-liga).
		But still lots and lots of pure elephant music with almost no editing or studio tricks sure to please their fans.
		i find it interesting that these elephants seem to play the music of their native land with ease as well as improvise with in the music.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/thaielephant (325 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Thai Elephant Orchestra *
		The latest disc from pop culture footnote/anthropomorphic psych collective the Thai Elephant Orchestra is a prime specimen of the first distinction.
		The svengalis behind the mood music are Richard Lair, a U.N.-anointed pachyderm expert who works at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang, and David Soldier, a neurologist from Columbia with a laboratory to his name and a record label, Mulatta, at his hand.
		After establishing the elephants’ prowess for transmissive sonic invention, such chintzy diversions stink of circus.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/2068 (461 words)

	do not think of a blue elephant
		Myself, Nigel, Fong (Nigel's wife) and Lien (Nigel's son) where all at the USM ABN-AMRO Arts and Cultural Centre in the centre of Penang performing a Silat Tari demo to help launch an art exhibition by a local artist Shamsul Bahari.
		One side of the small stage was crowded with the traditional instruments of a Gamalan Orchestra, metal bells and gongs hanging in beautifully crafted housings adorned with intricate carvings, the other half clear for us to jump around in.
		My opponent, Arri, is one of Pak Zianal's Thai Boxing students and a guy that likes to fight, but surprisingly I'm feeling very calm.
	donotthinkofablueelephant.blogspot.com (4458 words)

	WNYC - New Sounds: Thai Elephants on Parade (October 12, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hear traditional Thai music, Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, and even Hank Williams, all played by elephants: Prathida, Luuk Kob, Luuk Khang, JoJo, Phangkhawt, and Phumpuang.
		A human, like composer/performer Dave Soldier or Richard Lair of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, cues the elephants when to enter and when to stop playing.
		The other way this works is the “hocket” style, where each elephant plays one pitch of the scale on tuned angalungs.
	www.wnyc.org /shows/newsounds/episodes/2004/10/12 (245 words)

	Amazon.com: Thai Elephant Orchestra: David Soldier & Richard Lair: Music
		Amazon.com: Thai Elephant Orchestra: David Soldier and Richard Lair: Music
		When Elephants Paint : The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand by Komar & Melamid
		By the sounds heard on Thai Elephant Orchestra, a collaboration betwe
	www.amazon.com /Elephant-Orchestra-David-Soldier-Richard/dp/B00005B19H (198 words)

	DMG Search
		The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe.
		"The coolest new orchestra of the avant garde!" Children from Fort Greene, Brooklyn, ages 3 through 7, influenced by recordings of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and free jazz they heard in a music class, organized their own improvising jazz/classical/avant-garde orchestra.
		12 Elephants jamming on specially designed musical instruments; and in special live collaborations with a western classical orchestra and a Thai traditional ensemble.
	72.43.108.54 /Searching/WWW_DMG_Search.cgi?label.mulatta (1210 words)

	The Voice of Doom subs for Smurph, Sunday 3pm-6pm 2/25/01
		elephants improvise together (having been shown how to play, but not taught what to play)
		Raw elephant trumpeting sounds, sans instruments on this track, which I probably played a half dozen times (and near the end of the mix, this was overlapped with that P.I.S.S. track)
		Used this as a lead-in to a reprise of the elephant trumpeting track.
	kzsu.stanford.edu /~doom/Playlists/022501.html (751 words)

	Forty-two - 02/12/2001: "Thai Elephant Orchestra" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		February 12, 2001 Archived Entry: "Thai Elephant Orchestra"
		Call me crazy, but I think they really are playing music.
		Personally, I hear tempo, I hear tonality, I hear intent, though it’s not any kind of familiar esthetic—but neither is a Balinese gamelan, to my ear.
	www.largelypro.com /archives/00000049.html (213 words)

	Admit One / mental gymnasium » Thai Elephant Orchestra
		Elephant Conservation Center, a government facility in which
		domestic elephants are making the transition from forest
		This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 127873 Spams eaten and counting...
	www.admit-one.net /?p=580 (76 words)

	Save the Thai Elephant Travel LInks
		Press the play button for 5 minutes of Harmonica Music by Thai Elephant Orchestra, followed by 30 seconds of Thai school children singing Chang Chang Chang.
		If you want to ride the elephant and see the school children sing, we will be glad to arrange a hill tribe trek and ride the elephant up the hill and camp for the night at a hilltribe that will have its school children entertain you.
		Click the play button to hear Thai school children sing about the Thai elephant:
	thaielephant.biz /travel (332 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Thai Elephant Orchestra
		Given the inherent musicality of the lovely Thai gongs, etc., provided to the elephants, I'd have expected these instruments to sound just as pretty and just as much like "real" music whether set up as wind chimes or robotically played using a random number generator.
		Of course, if we accept John Cage's assertion that noise can be music, the question is not whether elephants can play music but whether elephants can play music that shows signs of (non-random) musical thought.
		Which suggests a sort of musical Turing test, in which respondents are asked whether an audio track produced by elephants (or for that matter musical robots with composition algorithms) sounds "more musical" than a control track of the same noises sequenced randomly.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/11/131721.php (665 words)

	Thai Elephants Multimedia @ National Geographic Magazine
		With help from mahouts and staff members of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, they organized a band of six domesticated elephants, crafted instruments, and set out to prove their point.
		These recordings from the CD Elephonic Rhapsodies reveal elephants' creative side.
		Although mahouts may encourage the animals to play by moving their arms to mimic the movement of an elephant's trunk, the pachyderms select the notes and rhythms on their own.
	www7.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0510/feature5/audio.html (123 words)

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