Spirits make noise

Updated on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 21:07
Authors
Brian Miller, Lisa Roberts, Maddison Gibbs / 2020 / Dreamtime
Place/Language
Southern Ocean
New and ancient responses combine to animate the humpback whale song.


 

Humpback whale and Antarctic krill
Humpback whale with Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)

Ways of thinking as artists and as scientists combine to animate the humpback whale as it sings and travels its cyclic path through the Southern Ocean each year, between Australia and Antarctica:

Drawing: Maddison Gibbs
Whale sonograph: Brian Miller
(Australian Antarctic Division)
Animation: Lisa Roberts

Geolocation
-50, 35
Media Taxonomy