Thai Elephant Orchestra

Thai Elephant Orchestra

The Thai Elephant Orchestra is a musical ensemble consisting of as many as sixteen elephants near Lampang in Northern Thailand. The elephants play music (essentially as conducted improvisations) on enormous specially designed musical instruments. The orchestra was created and is conducted by elephant conservationist Richard Lair of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center and the American composer/performer Dave Soldier. They have two CDs released on the Mulatta Records label and a third is in the works.

External links

* [http://www.mulatta.org/Thaielephantorch.html Mulatta Records' page on the Thai Elephant Orchestra (includes sound samples)]
* [http://mulatta.org/articles/Soldier_Leonardo.pdf A full article by Dave Soldier on the orchestra can be downloaded from his website ]


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