… a watery encounter in two parts… 

2pm doors - $11 adv / $14 door: All Ages Family Iteration <— click for tickets!

This event includes a live performance by electroacoustic improvisation duo Pink Dolphins (Christina Marie Karr + Lillian Doyle) using keys and flutes to generate pre / post apocalyptic aural environments as well as a Whale Song workshop led by vocalist, composer, and cantor Daniela Gesundheit (Alphabet of Wrongdoing).

The cool blue underwater feeling of Healing Force is the perfect stand-in ocean basin for a day-into-night of apprenticing ourselves to the largest broadcasting mammals on the planet— humpback whales. As humpbacks simulcast their continuous composition, they listen attentively to their peers, incorporating the innovations that they hear around them into their shared, living song. Musicians especially geek out on what humpbacks are up to once they are privy. In this moment when deep, attuned listening is at a premium, what might we learn about group identity, innovation, and empathy from these marine masters?

Whale Song: a Workshop is a response to and continuation of a decade of affectionate correspondence and collaboration between Daniela and bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne (Songs of the Humpback Whale). A trained musician, Katy listened to thousands of hours of recordings of humpback whale song and found form where others heard noise. With Pink Dolphins as our sonic guardians, we will listen and vocalize together as we recreate a primary experience of the compositional techniques and structures at play in the humpbacks’ complex song. 

All ages, all voices welcome. 

Bring your kiddos to the afternoon set. 

Bring your sweetheart to the evening set.