Whale Song: a Workshop +
@pinkdolphins.web at
@healingforcerecords
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
… a watery encounter in two parts…
How our world is hurting. It’s time to consult our marine mammal maestros. It always has been time, it always will be time. Especially after Los Angeles’s death dance with flames, we need to remember and re-encounter water, to learn from its inhabitants.
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, leaderless collaboration, 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 I have fostered with beloved 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
@pinkdolphins.web as our sonic guardians (electroacoustic improvisation duo Christina Marie Karr
@ouecha + Lillian Doyle using keys and flutes to generate pre and post apocalyptic aural environments), 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.
2pm / $11 : All Ages Family Iteration : bring your kiddos : TICKET LINK IN BIO
7pm / $22 : Marine Mammal Nocturne : bring your sweetheart : TICKET LINK IN BIO
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