Digital Art
Whale and Dolphin Orchestra
Choose your musicians on an ocean map. Each one is a real recording of a whale or dolphin.
Whale and Dolphin Orchestra measures the timing and pitch of recorded calls, then uses those patterns to guide generated music. You can hear finished pieces, listen to the individual animals, and follow the recordings and music in spectrograms: pictures of how sound changes over time.
The project is a working prototype by Livia Zaharia and Anton Kulaga. It was developed for an ArtWaves residency proposal; the listening installation is a proposed next step.
Another part of the project, Sound to silver, explores how an animal's recorded phrase can bend the form of one of Livia's rings. These sound-shaped rings are still in development and have not yet been cast.