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Title:  Belly Of The Whale Artist:  Jayne Fenton Keane, Lapcore, Yannick Dauby, Jim Nollman,, Scanner, Merzbow, Christina Della Giustina Label:  Important Records Format:  CD Price:  € 14.90   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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The Belly Of The Whale project is a was brilliantly conceived together by two of the prime movers in the Natural Art world: Interspecies and Greenmuseum. The goal was to create digital music from underwater sound samples of creatures including orcas, dolphins, beluga whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, Weddell and Bearded seals, lobsters, shrimp and water. Together, Interspecies and Greenmuseum compiled a sample cd of 350 captured sounds and sent it out to many of their favorite electronic artists. Scanner, Merzbow, Yannick Dauby, LapCore, Jayne Fenton Keane, Kim Cascone and many others answered the call merging deep sea underwater sounds with their electronic aesthetics. What's most compelling about this project is the throughtful way that the artists have listened and responded, both indivdually and as a community, to the sounds of our environment.
This project is a unique blend of modern electronic music as well as an underwater educational experience. Included are some of the foremost electronic composers in the world making music for two of the foremost groups in the Natural Art world. Further emphasizing the various artistic perspectives of the individual artists is the brilliant source material, the same material used by each artist, which is included as a special bonus disc.
Jim Nollman started the nonprofit, Interspecies Communication Inc., in 1978, to sponsor a long term experiment in using music to communicate with wild animals. Over the years he has produced field projects with species as varied as howler monkeys in Panama, buffalo and elk in Yellowstone, and turkeys in his own backyard. His best known work has been with dolphins and whales. This work has been sponsored by many foundations including The Smithsonian, Threshold, Slifka Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as foundations in Germany, Japan., Finland, and France. It has been filmed many times by all US TV networks, and includes two National Geographic films in the past 3 years alone. Nollman has also written several books about this work including The Man Who Talks to Whales, The Charged Border, and the Beluga CafŽ.

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