Animal song is an important topic because it harbors profound information about the history of life—by examining animal song, we stand to gain a better understanding of everything from social synchronization and linguistic turn-taking to (bio)semiotics. By inviting researchers, writers, and artists to campus, and through the establishment of networks between Princeton and laboratories abroad, we approach the question of animal song with fresh ears. Overcoming the reductivism of much scientific research, on the one hand, and the anti-realism of much humanities research, on the other, we seek to place the study of animal song on the agenda in a new way, letting it resonate across disciplines, from musicology and history to psychology and neuroscience.