Musician and researcher thinking about animal musicking, bioacoustics, and human-animal relations mediated through sound. As a performer I play and improvise with other humans too!
It's great to see The Biology of Music - Interdisciplinary Insights edited by @andrearavignani.bsky.social out in the wild! I have a co-authored chapter in there on #animalmusicking, with @emilydoolittle.bsky.social and Pralle Kriengwatana. academic.oup.com/book/63102.
CFP for 'BioSphere & TechnoSphere 2 – Emotion and Affect in Musics Beyond the Human' conference 5-6 November 2026. www.hfm-nuernberg.de/forschung-le...
BioSphere and TechnoSphere 2Die Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg steht für exzellente Ausbildung in künstlerischen und künstlerisch-pädagogischen Fächern und bereitet Studierende optimal auf das Berufsleben vor. Sie ist die jüngste...www.hfm-nuernberg.deGreat new paper out on the shifting structure of bowhead whale song! 🐋
Luke RendellNew paper! I am now officially a bowhead song researcher thanks to Seth's cool new paper - see thread for details - there is so much work to do on bowhead song and I am excited to continue this collaboration! @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @taylorhersh.bsky.social @sethharris15.bsky.social 🐋🦑🧪
Cool paper out on sperm whale codas in the Mediterranean from @taylorhersh.bsky.social and co-authors including @lrendell.bsky.social. New evidence for the evolution of vocal cultures! 🐋
Luke RendellNew paper! Dialect variation in Mediterranean sperm whales shows evidence of cultural evolution in an isolated population tinyurl.com/yrfepekh with @taylorhersh.bsky.social @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social and the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute 🐋🦑🧪 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
It's nearly a year since the 'Keening-Song of the Stranding' event in Lewis with Sam Gare, Aya Kobayashi, @nordicviola.bsky.social and Nerea Bello. Sam and I are presenting on it today at 1300 at this 'Fixing Our Broken Planet' webinar - do drop by! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/61b21c...
Very happy to be visiting Fetlar (Shetland) 9 June to perform music by @emilydoolittle.bsky.social inspired by the folk tale Jan Tait and the Bear, plus works in which the clarinet evokes the sounds of gannets and whales.
Emily DoolittleIf you'll be on Fetlar June 9 pls come to an evening of art & music w paintings about Jan Tait & the Bear by Meilo So & a concert by @amsouth.bsky.social of music abt bears, whales & gannets. Free & drop-in but if you book here we can bring enough snacks! Pls RT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...
On Thursday 7 May I'll be at the Music Centre in St Andrews, helping to lead workshops on the impact of anthropogenic noise pollution on the communication of whales and dolphins. We still have a few spaces free, do sign up if you're interested! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/nEZQsDBNwL
Interesting CFP up from Acoustic Ecology Review journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/ae... Expression of Interest deadline 15 May 2026.
Acoustic Ecology Review (AER) – Call for Papers | Acoustic Ecology Review journals.lib.sfu.caI'm talking on human-cetacean sonic relationships in connnection with whale strandings on Mon 27 April at 1815 UK time, in the 'Art and the Anthropocene' series at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Please do tune in online! www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/exc... Image by Phil Hall, artwork by Sam Gare,
Exchange Talk: Multispecies Sonic Socialities and the Sound of Stranding | Royal Conservatoire of Scotlandwww.rcs.ac.ukVery happy to be playing with @jerreid.bsky.social and the rest of the Collective Endeavours crew in Glasgow next Tuesday 24 March! Expect the unexpected... Event page here fb.me/e/3AddzBTse
Very happy to contribute a short section to 'Music Defined: A Provocation' (Taylor et al 2026), out now in 'Tempo' in the first issue from its new home at Wolke Verlag. I look at the sampling of whale song field recordings. www.wolke-verlag.de/en/shop/temp...
Tempo - Wolke VerlagTempo is the international journal for contemporary music, featuring essays, interviews and reviews on new works, current debates and music today.www.wolke-verlag.deThis looks like a cool way to explore sequences of animal vocalizations! Thanks for sharing @masonyoungblood.bsky.social
Mason YoungbloodHappy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
Short audio paper out now on deep listening to migratory whales in our changing underwater environments. Reposting with hashtags! #MarineMammals #ecomusicology #envhum #bioacoustics 🐋
Sounding migrationsDeep listening and the acoustic phenology of whale songseismograf.orgVery happy to have my 'Sounding migrations: Deep listening and the acoustic phenology of whale song' published in this brilliant collection of audio papers from Seismograf Peer. Do have a listen and let me know what you think! seismograf.org/fokus/sound-...
Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds19 audio papers on sound, technology, and listening beyond the humanseismograf.orgGreat short article out from @sebnemsaraeva.bsky.social, asking important ethical questions about possible interspecies human-whale communication, from the perspective of translation studies. "Most importantly, who will be the translators and interpreters in human-whale encounters?" #bioacoustics
mothrights.org'Keening - Song of the Stranding' album launched today to commemorate the mass stranding of pilot whales that occurred in Lewis in July 2023. Please have a listen! Musical collaboration with @nordicviola.bsky.social and Nerea Bello. alexsouth.bandcamp.com/album/keenin...
Keening - Song of the Stranding, by Keening - Song of the Stranding3 track albumalexsouth.bandcamp.comHere's a short blog I wrote for @iashedinburgh.bsky.social about a recent visit to @hias-hamburg.bsky.social. Had some fun sharing ideas about artistic research with a fabulous group of NetIAS scholars from across Europe. www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/what-do...
What do we mean by Artistic Research if we really mean it? | IASHwww.iash.ed.ac.ukHappy that "The Fox" is back in the water again, heading north to Orkney in September with a preview performance in Dunblane 31 August.
nordicviolaThe Voyage of The Fox with poetry by Lesley Harrison and music by me and @amsouth.bsky.social is in Dunblane on 31st Aug before we take it to Orkney Science Festival. Tickets very limited so get them now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-voyage... @newmusicscotland.bsky.social @dunblaneinfo.bsky.social
This looks like an interesting paper on cultural evolution, in that it moves the focus away from more-or-less passive consumers. However, let's not forget that in many cultures (including Western subcultures), the dominant model of 'production' vs 'consumption' is far less relevant.
Alberto AcerbiMaybe an interesting link between the fact that we find difficult to give artistic credit to AI and the idea of looking at cultural products from the producers' point of view as in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...