Tessera
Folgen

Alex South

@amsouth.bsky.social

Musician and researcher thinking about animal musicking, bioacoustics, and human-animal relations mediated through sound. As a performer I play and improvise with other humans too!

54 Posts539 Follower252 Folgt
Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cool paper out on sperm whale codas in the Mediterranean from @taylorhersh.bsky.social and co-authors including @lrendell.bsky.social. New evidence for the evolution of vocal cultures! 🐋

Luke Rendell@lrendell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper! Dialect variation in Mediterranean sperm whales shows evidence of cultural evolution in an isolated population tinyurl.com/yrfepekh with @taylorhersh.bsky.social @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social and the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute 🐋🦑🧪 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

A group of sperm whale adult and calves at the surface taken from above. Credit Asociación Tursiops
Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very happy to be visiting Fetlar (Shetland) 9 June to perform music by @emilydoolittle.bsky.social inspired by the folk tale Jan Tait and the Bear, plus works in which the clarinet evokes the sounds of gannets and whales.

Emily Doolittle@emilydoolittle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you'll be on Fetlar June 9 pls come to an evening of art & music w paintings about Jan Tait & the Bear by Meilo So & a concert by @amsouth.bsky.social of music abt bears, whales & gannets. Free & drop-in but if you book here we can bring enough snacks! Pls RT! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy that "The Fox" is back in the water again, heading north to Orkney in September with a preview performance in Dunblane 31 August.

@nordicviola.bsky.social · last yr.

The Voyage of The Fox with poetry by Lesley Harrison and music by me and @amsouth.bsky.social is in Dunblane on 31st Aug before we take it to Orkney Science Festival. Tickets very limited so get them now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-voyage... @newmusicscotland.bsky.social @dunblaneinfo.bsky.social

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · last yr.

Great to hear that the Multispecies Sound and Movement Study Group has been approved as an official study group of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance. Further, that the study group board will be curating a special issue of the AAWM Journal of Music and Nature. CFP below.

Emily Doolittle@emilydoolittle.bsky.social · last yr.

Our #zoomusicology #animalwelfare paper "Playing music to animals," co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Martin Ullrich, @ruedinager.bsky.social and me is now open access. This has been such a great team to work with & fun paper to write! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Playing music to animals: an interdisciplinary approach to improving our understanding of animals' responses to music

Humans have profoundly changed the global soundscape. Studying how nonhuman animals respond to music can contribute to a better understanding of the e…

sciencedirect.com

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

This looks like an interesting paper on cultural evolution, in that it moves the focus away from more-or-less passive consumers. However, let's not forget that in many cultures (including Western subcultures), the dominant model of 'production' vs 'consumption' is far less relevant.

Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto.com · 2y ago

Maybe an interesting link between the fact that we find difficult to give artistic credit to AI and the idea of looking at cultural products from the producers' point of view as in www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Super-excited to be performing in UNESCO's #WeekOfSound in Edinburgh next Monday with Una MacGlone. Composed/improvised musics inspired by sounds and environments #BeneathTheWaves. University West Court 7pm. digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/...

At a glance – UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh

digital.eca.ed.ac.uk

UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh@weekofsound.bsky.social · 2y ago

Next week is the week! The second UNESCO #WeekOfSound in #Edinburgh takes place from 17-21 February. Concerts, workshops, tours on the theme WAVES. All events free.

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to be part of the next phase of this project led by writer @rebeccasharp.bsky.social. Music very much inspired by important places in the legend of Tenew/Thaney, including Traprain Law, Aberlady Bay, and Culross #TheBorders #CreativeScotland.

New work: Maiden Mother Mage | Rebecca Sharp

rebeccajoysharp.com

Rebecca Sharp@rebeccasharp.bsky.social · 2y ago

MAIDEN MOTHER MAGE 🔔 thanks to funding from Creative Scotland, performances of my new work will take place at Culross Abbey (Fife) in July & Glasgow Cathedral in September. Re-telling Tenew/Thaney, with @amsouth.bsky.social (score) & Frances Law (artwork). www.rebeccajoysharp.com/maiden-mothe...

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great to see our interdisciplinary paper on music and animal welfare out in the journal Animal Behaviour. Very much a team effort with @emilydoolittle.bsky.social, @ruedinager.bsky.social and Martin Ullrich, steered by Pralle Kriengwatana. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kYdDmjMA3XG

authors.elsevier.com

Emily Doolittle@emilydoolittle.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to share our interdisciplinary inquiry into the use of music in animal welfare contexts, "Playing music to animals" co-authored by Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, @ruedinager.bsky.social, Marin Ullrich & me! #zoomusicology #AnimalWelfare authors.elsevier.com/a/1kYdDmjMA3XG

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

So pleased that 'Keening - Song of the Stranding' has been given the green light, thanks to funders Creative Scotland, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Make It Happen Fund, and the Hope Scott Trust. Some details here, more to follow! #SongOfTheStranding @nordicviola.bsky.social

National Lottery & Scottish Government Funding Inspires Artistic Connection in Outer Hebrides

As Creative Scotland announces the latest the round of National Lottery and Scottish Government-backed Open Fund Awards, the islands of the Outer Hebrides continue to be an invaluable source of inspir...

creativescot-newsroom.prgloo.com

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Over the past c.20 years @rothenbird.bsky.social has done more than just about anyone to draw public attention to the musicality of the sounds of whales. My review of his 'Whale Music' is out now in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies doi.org/10.1386/jivs... 🐋#cetaceancitations

Whale Music, David Rothenberg (2023) | Intellect

Review of: Whale Music, David Rothenberg (2023) Cambridge, MA: Terra Nova Press, 376 pp., ISBN 978-1-94959-725-7, p/bk, $27.95

doi.org

Alex South@amsouth.bsky.social · 2y ago

New study out of humpback whale paternity patterns in a South Pacific population recovering from intensive whaling. I was particularly interested to read that these results suggest higher levels of interchange between populations than previous estimates.🐋

Franca Eichenberger@francae.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper on "Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales." 🐋🧬 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @emma-carroll.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 1/8

Graphical abstract of the methods and main results of the publication. It includes a photograph of a group of several humpback whales competing to be closest to the female of the group.