Sea Mammals Archival Recording
When performing, you enter into a dialogue with other ensemble members using the language of whales, walruses, and other sea mammals. On this page, you can listen to the excerpts from the archival recordings that you can use to build your vocabulary. Each recording is accompanied by a spectrogram—visual representation of the sound’s components, where y axis represents pitch and x axis represents time, the intensity of the color corresponds to the volume/loudness. You also can see the symbol used in the score for the representation of the sound. The notation follows the spectrogram’s lowest partial and serves as a reminder of the sound,. Best approach for the performance is to listen to the recording and to imitate it on your instrument as close as possible.
The recordings belong to the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The name of each recording corresponds to its name in the database.
Bowhead Whale
Audio Recording
Audio Recording
Notation in the score
Notation in the score
Walrus
Notation in the score
Spectrogram
