How To Be A Whale Listening Journey
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CLIMATE SHIFTED PRESENTS: HOW TO BE A WHALE
by Tom Mustill
What if you could slip beneath the surface and experience life as a whale—navigating a sonic world both strange and achingly beautiful?
Join us for an immersive bioacoustic listening journey, followed by a panel with leading researchers on what's happening with whales right here in the Bay Area and beyond.
We're partnering with Heron Arts to bring you this experience within their Gamelatron: 1000 Ways to Sit installation—a space designed for contemplation and sonic exploration. The perfect setting to attune ourselves to our ocean relatives.
THE EXPERIENCE
First, we'll drop into a sensory journey designed to shift your perception—you'll hear the ocean as whales do, navigating a world where sound is everything. Surrounded by the Gamelatron's resonant environment, you'll experience what it means to live through your ears.
Then, we'll surface for a conversation with three scientists at the forefront of whale research:
—Gašper Beguš, linguist with Project CETI who just discovered that sperm whales communicate using vowels (yes, really)
—Anne Simonis, bioacoustic researcher from SFSU investigating how human-made noise impacts marine mammals
—Kathi George, Director of Cetacean Conservation Biology at Marine Mammal Center, protecting Bay Area whales
We'll explore the latest breakthroughs in whale communication, local conservation challenges, and tangible ways you can help protect whales—from your couch or on a walk.
After the panel, you'll have time to wander the installation, continue conversations, and sit with what you've learned. Leave with a deeper connection to our evolutionary cousins and clear actions you can take to protect them.
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