Whale Song: a Workshop is a response to and a decade of affectionate correspondence and collaboration between Daniela Gesundheit and bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne (Songs of the Humpback Whale). A trained musician, Katy listened to thousands of hours of recordings of humpback whale singing 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.

The cool blue underwater feeling of Healing Force is the perfect stand-in ocean basin for 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?

Electroacoustic improvisation duo Pink Dolphins (Christina Marie Karr + Lillian Doyle) open, using keys and flutes to generate pre/post apocalyptic aural environments.

KID FRIENDLY

Lindor Farms Pizza: Farm to table catering and pop ups

Doors at 2 PM

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