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Into Thin Air Official Video
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Into Thin Air, from the album Once Upon Deep Time, focuses on how our hearing changed from the transition from our fishy ancestors in the water to living in air. Our ability to hear in air relies on tiny, vibrating bones that evolved from our fishy ancestors’ jaws. Once we could hear in air, the evolution of a voice followed -- but only after our ancestors passed through a nocturnal phase where calling out to one another became important. • In the song, as short-hand, I say we had no ears - this is correct in the sense that ears as you and I know them did not exist in our earliest, fishy ancestors. Fishes sense sounds by allowing sound waves to pass through their heads and into specialized sensory canals on their bodies. This way of hearing becomes useless for hearing in the thin air. So we evolved what we call ears through repurposing jaw bones to vibrate with airborne sounds and modifying a gill pouch into the ear canal and ear drum. • The fishy ancestor in the video is based on the fossil Tiktaalik; the early amphibian is based on the fossil Eucritta; and the mammal ancestor is based on the fossil Thrinaxodon. • I wanted to extend my thanks to the Stockton University student artists and animators on this video: Avery Garlic, Tiffany Ibezim, and Ruby Rodrigues! Thanks for all of your help and creativity! Also, special thanks to Dr. Michael McGarvey, Art Professor at Stockton University, for his help recruiting students and co-directing the video. • Educators should feel free to use the video for educational purposes with appropriate attribution. The material is copyrighted, so it cannot be used and distributed in any way that results in monetization without my explicit, written permission. • Listen to or download this single or the Once Upon Deep Time album on my Bandcamp page: https://matthewbonnan.bandcamp.com/ • Listen to or download this single or the Once Upon Deep Time album everywhere: https://matthewbonnan.hearnow.com/ • To learn more about the project: https://www.matthewbonnan.com/once-up... • Lyrics (c) 2022 Matthew F. Bonnan • When we emerged from the sea • The silence was roaring • We had no ears, no way to hear • The danger coming • Before there could be birdsong in the air • Or a chorus of frogs in the night • Bones from the jaw were repurposed • And airborne sounds came to life • Whoa, fish out of water • Into thin air • Listen! The past speaks loud and clear • From the jaws of a fish to the sounds in your ears • We’re all fish out of water • In the thin air • Hearing the danger was only the start • Voices were absent in that sunlit world • As long as we remained in light • Being seen not heard was connection enough • Yet so many ways in those long-ago days • Each was led from the sun to the night • To evolve through a tunnel of darkness • And emerge with a voice in the light • Whoa fish out of water • Into thin air • Listen! The past speaks loud and clear • From the jaws of a fish to the sound in your ear • We’re all fish out of water • In the thin air • In the absence of light, the frog calls ignite • While feathered dinosaurs learn to sing • When you pass through the dark the sound is the spark • From which all of our voices spring • So, don’t let the darkness overtake us • In the night I need to know you’re still there • From the jaws of a fish to the sounds in your ears • You can hear us, we’re a chorus • Floating free on the air • Whoa fish out of water • Into thin air • Listen! The past speaks loud and clear • From the jaws of a fish to the sounds in your ears • We’re all fish out of water • In the thin air • We are fish out of water • Singing in the thin air!
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