How is the ‘language’ of music learned? Can it be translated? Ethnomusicology student Anna Wright explains how music serves as a communicative device even in the absence of lyric content, and how it can help create our senses of individual and cultural identity. She and guests Corey Cerovsek (violin) and psychology professor Bill Thompson probe the limits of our musical understanding, with special reference to non-western traditions. Hear fiddle music by Liz Carroll, playing the first of a two-piece set called Castle Kelly.