*this concept has been folded into a larger project that I am working on.

concept: Broadcast whale songs under one of the bridges over the Seine.
This is a response to DANSE magnetand it’s about my relationship with the public. I feel like DM was very intrusive and demanding. With WP I want to give something, to sit with “the public”. I feel like I’m in a new relationship with this city and I have to be delicate to the energy push and pull. Whale songs are very deep and moving. The whale, to me, is the icon of woman/mother/emotions. So I want to nurture with this piece. And there are so many bridges here that the echo will be amazing. I just need to invest in an amplifier.

online references:
http://www.whales.net/
http://www.whalesounds.com/home/index.html

Whale song is the sound made by whales to communicate. The word “song” is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the humpback) in a way that is reminiscent of human singing^{[citation needed]}. The mechanisms used to produce sound vary from one family of cetaceans to another. Marine mammals, such as whales, dolphins, and porpoises, are much more dependent on sound for communication and sensation than are land mammals, as other senses are of limited effectiveness in water. Sight is limited for marine mammals because of the way water absorbs light. Smell is also limited, as molecules diffuse more slowly in water than in air, which makes smelling less effective. In addition, the speed of sound in water is roughly four times that in the atmosphere at sea level. Because sea mammals are so dependent on hearing to communicate and feed, environmentalists and cetologists are concerned that they are being harmed by the increased ambient noise in the world’s oceans caused by ships and marine seismic surveys.