In the videos we watched in class on David Rothenberg he was playing along with the birds while they were singing along with him. He also did this in the first chapter of his book. So my question is, if us and birds have a common understanding and can play together, then why do we have so much trouble understanding their language. There must be some similarities between their language and our music or else we wouldn't be on the same page when it comes to "jamming" together. Is it possible that they only way we can communicate with birds is through our music? Or maybe we aren't communicating at all; we're just playing and their just mimicking the sounds they find familiar. Our music is made to sound like their songs, but they aren't actually their songs.
We know that birds are born with some set of music for different purposes, yet others develop music through their lifetime. So how is this any different from humans? Some of us develop music over our lifetimes and it's considered music. Why aren't bird songs considered music. It's because we have an understanding of what music is because we made up the definition in our own language. Maybe birds are musical in their own language, we just don't understand it in ours.
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