Grooved Whale

Artist: Lisa Walker
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 696208010820
EAN: 0696208010820
ASIN: B00005TT5U

Release Date: 2001-10-01

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Tracks:

Tenakee Feeding Call
Transients
Misticete
Hawaii Gruv
Boogie
Vertigo
ViolinLaugh
Melancholy
Backwards Unfolding
Transfixed
Winter Song

Customer Reviews:

Two Ships in the Night.......2006-04-02

Violinist Lisa Walker at first set out to study whale vocalizations in Alaskan waters, but soon came to value their enigmatic songs more for their artistic content than for any detached scientific interest. Combining underwater hydrophone recordings with her own new-agey violin + synthesizer tunes, she has crafted an "interspecies ambient" album (her term) which unfortunately emphasizes mystery over understanding.

It seems like a missed opportunity to me that her music does not attempt to incorporate whalesong except as occasional backdrop. She also mentions on her website (groovedwhale.com) that she played her violin to the whales through underwater speakers and it would have been nice to know whether the humpbacks responded to this in any way.

Alas, "communication" does not seem to have been the goal and it certainly did not emerge as a result. What we have is a rather lackluster new age album with some whale recordings in the background.

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