There’s a kind of unintentional whaling today.” “I was inspired to think about the external world of the humpback singer now. “Marine entanglement is a huge threat to marine mammal populations in the Gulf of Maine, and it’s one of the leading causes of death of the North Atlantic right whale here in the Northeast,” Lewandowski said. The colors are projected on a sculpture, designed by collaborator and set designer Amy Rubin, comprising several hundred pounds of ropes, nets and other marine debris that Lewandowski collected from the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The effect is to “give listeners an experience of being immersed in humpback song,” Lewandowski said. McDonald combined Lewandowski’s annotations with machine learning to create a visual accompaniment, with rich pulses of color illuminating the voices of three whales as their songs are played through an array of speakers. Then she turned to artist and coder Kyle McDonald, whom she had worked with on a Google Creative Lab project, Pattern Radio : Whale Songs, which used artificial intelligence to recognize patterns in whale songs. Lewandowski took her recordings from Hawaii and used software developed by the Lab of Ornithology to annotate a 40-minute selection of humpback whale songs, identifying unique sound units, phrases, and themes. Like the “Songs of the Humpback Whale” album, Lewandowski wanted to represent “the beauty of the interior world through the creative mind of the singer” as well as “the harsh external reality” that whales face. Johnson Museum of Art, Gallery Eight, Sept. The postponement gave Lewandowski extra time to develop her installation performance, “Siren – Listening to Another Species on Earth,” which will be displayed at the Herbert F.
They intended to incorporate those songs into a performance and public lecture that would commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary in 2020, but those plans were delayed by the pandemic.
The project grew out of a 2019 collaboration in which Lewandowski and Katy Payne traveled to Hawaii with support from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability to record a new selection of humpback songs. “ The Whale Listening Project” includes a whale-song installation at the Johnson Museum of Art, an immersive workshop, and a rare joint lecture featuring Roger and Katy Payne. “I think that recording is a testament to the fact that beauty can change the world,” said the event’s organizer, Annie Lewandowski, senior music lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences. 23-26, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. Cornell will host “The Whale Listening Project,” Sept.
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