Songs of the Graceful Giants

An audio-visual interactive piece born from research into the whales of the Salish coast — their migratory patterns, echolocation, and wondrous communications. The piece also looks at how cohabiting this earth with humans and waves of industrialization has affected their lives.

The piece tracks the whales of the Salish coast through time: before industrialization, through the disruption of their acoustic world, how they navigate sound pollution, and a proposal for interspecies coexistence.