Bidirectional Interactions With Humpback Whale Singer Using Concrete Sound Elements

Frontiers in Psychology

Paul Nguyen Hong Duc¹  Olivier Adam²  Aline Pénitot³  Dorian Cazau⁴  Diemo Schwarz⁵ 

[1] CNRS, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, UMR 7190, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France;CNRS, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, UMR 7190, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France;CNRS, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay, UMR 9197, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France;Compagnie Ondas, Paris, France;ENSTA Bretagne, CNRS, Lab-STICC, UMR 6285, Brest, France;Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son, UMR 9912, Ircam, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France;

关键词: humpback whale song;    bassoon;    interactions;    music interface;    musique concrete;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.654314

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

We describe an art–science project called “Feral Interactions—The Answer of the Humpback Whale” inspired by humpback whale songs and interactions between individuals based on mutual influences, learning process, or ranking in the dominance hierarchy. The aim was to build new sounds that can be used to initiate acoustic interactions with these whales, not in a one-way direction, as playbacks do, but in real interspecies exchanges. Thus, we investigated how the humpback whales generate sounds in order to better understand their abilities and limits. By carefully listening to their emitted vocalizations, we also describe their acoustic features and temporal structure, in a scientific way and also with a musical approach as it is done with musique concrète, in order to specify the types and the morphologies of whale sounds. The idea is to highlight the most precise information to generate our own sounds that will be suggested to the whales. Based on the approach developed in musique concrète, similarities with the sounds produced by bassoon were identified and then were processed to become “concrete sound elements.” This analysis also brought us to design a new music interface that allows us to create adapted musical phrases in real-time. With this approach, interactions will be possible in both directions, from and to whales.

【 授权许可】

CC BY