The heaviness lights

"The more I listened to this whale, the more I felt and wanted to communicate along with it.  There has been a lot of loss this year for so many and the experience of listening to this whale sound became a special experience that I wanted prolong and accentuate.  I felt compelled to add one of my field recordings of wind alongside the whale and the more I listened, the more musical and orchestral sounding the whale became so I added a bit of instrumentation and I manipulated it until I could share that vision."

 Humpback whale reimagined by Michelle Breslin.

Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.