TITLE: The beluga echo field

DESCRIPTION: I worked alongside the world's most far-sighted whale scientists for three summers on the Russian White Sea, doing acoustic research with beluga whales. While the Russians set me up for a week to improvize musically with the whales, I showed them new computer tools to map the structure of the whale calls, and thus demonstrate their profound hypothesis that belugas communicate with a true language. These scientists have recently published a paper that shows that belugas use phonemes to construct actual words.