...empowers artists to re-invent the human relationship with animals, with the goal of healing our own species' emotional, spiritual, and cultural ties with nature. Our best known work brings musicians together with wild whales and dolphins to explore the potential for interspecies communication. If you'd like to support Interspecies.com, read this letter to donors. And here's a more detailed page about what we do.
 Our current issue showcases a remarkable music video of a realtime musical interaction between a guitarist and wild orcas. Read deeper, and find out why deer antlers may do double duty as radio antennae. Continue to view photos of a genuine bright pink dolphin plus a silly cow with a world map pattern. if you like what you read, delve still deeper into our archive. If you'd like to receive this semi-monthly newsletter, send us a note. We do not share email addresses with anyone.
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1. Animal portraits by Jim Nollman. Click the orcas here, or the orca graph below, to receive a print in support of our work. |
Our musical instrument scrapbook features photos of guitars, drums, mandolins, and technology used in our work over the past 30 years.
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2. Mark Fischer adapts wavelet graphs as a tool for interpreting whale calls. This one depicts an orca call. |
- Is it really possible to communicate with whales? What form of media would YOU choose to try it? We've been researching these questions on the ocean for thirty years. Read this multi-part essay to learn what we've discovered.
- Take a listen to some new songs from our Jukebox. It includes Last Days, about dying with dignity, and featuring an interspecies interaction with wolves.
- And Finally, Can we all agree to stop calling Physeter macrocephalus by the idiotic name of "sperm" whale? Read this editorial to find out why. The Interspecies cachalot project documents a whale's version of a drumming circle.
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