Becoming a Mouth Mythical Musicians Teach Multi-Species Collaboration

Human narratives have held centre stage for thousands of years. But there was a time when legendary bards knew it was their job to channel the stories of animals and plants and stones. We resurrect a long line of magician harpists that span all the way from Palestine to Greece to England. These prophetic figures share a common thread of magic, prophecy, poetry, and more-than-human collaborators. Orpheus, Merlin, King David, Tristan, and Taliesin teach us that mystical art is not the product of an individual. The magic is in the overlap of many minds. These harpists ask us the important question, “In an age of extinction, which species needs my mouth?”