|
|
Belly of the Whale: CD
|
|
| The Belly Of The Whale CD consists of 16 selections by composers from 10 countries, all created from the underwater calls of orcas, dolphins, beluga whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, seals, lobsters, and shrimp. The co-producers, Interspecies.com and Greenmuseum.org, compiled a sample cd of 350 animal calls and sent it out to many of their favorite electronic artists including Scanner, Merzbow, and Rothenberg. What's most compelling about this project is the throughtful way that the artists have listened and responded, both individually and as a community, to the sounds of the marine environment. from Important Records. |
$18.00 + shipping
|
|
| A midnight recording Session between an Orca and a guitarist |
| Listen to this short audio clip excerpted from an hourlong session between electric guitarist Jim Nollman and a male orca, named A6. It was recorded in 1979, during a film shoot directed by Kenji Iwashita, best-known for his movie, The Man Who Skied Down Everest. You can hear this, and more like it, by buying Orcas Greatest Hits. |
|
|
|
| Nollman played through an underwater speaker, improvizing with the orca pod's calls. You can hear A6 initiating a call-and-response with the guitar to create this interspecies dialogue. Listen closely. A6 responds several times on pitch and on beat, harmonically accenting two of the chord changes of the blues progression. His response demonstrates a comprehension both of improvization and of the aesthetic we call music. In the movie Close Encounters, music is used to initiate communication with extraterrestrials. We spend millions on the SETI project, but no funding to research the implication of this recording: that music is being used, today, to communicate with orcas. |
| The Beluga Cafe: Book |
|
| By Jim Nollman. The Beluga Cafe (Sierra Club Books) is easily one of the best known books that focuses on the crucial interface between art and nature. It is the true story of three artists creating music and sculpture in the Arctic. Unwittingly, their work puts them in a dangerous conflict with Inuit whale hunters who interpret the art as a hex meant to keep the whales away. Intriguingly, the entire local population of 5000 whales has indeed disappeared. |
$18 + shipping |
|
|
Orcas Greatest Hits: CD
|
|
| During the 1980s, Interspecies sponsored over 100 musicians to attempt communication with orcas off western Canada. Our CD, Orcas Greatest Hits, contains the best interactions from the project, Musicians include pros, talented amateurs, and even an 8 year old girl. We used hydrophones and underwater speakers to build a recording studio in a boat, which was anchored, so the whales had to come to us if they were interested. |
$18 + shipping |
|
|
The Charged Border: Book
|
|
|
For a detailed interpretation of what occurred that night with A-6, including the story of our two decade-long Orca project, purchase The Charged Border, Where Whales and Humans Meet (Holt, 1999). Read an excerpt.
Other chapters include:
- an Interspecies project to stop the killing of dolphins in Japan,
- an international media event in Barrow Alaska. Interspecies guided 3 gray whales to safety using a Paul Simon song.
- A brief history of human/whale relations including communication.
|
$25 + shipping |
 |
|
The Interspecies DVD
|
|
|
Made for TV viewing. It includes an animated slide show that showcases our whale projects. Also includes
- a Belly of the Whale music video
- a wavelet video with sound.
- a step by step video of Jim Nollman making live music with orcas.
If you like whales and music, you'll definitely want to see this DVD.
|
$20 (shipping included) |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
