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  • 2016-04-21 (xsd:date)
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  • Orchestra Music Brings Whales to the Surface (en)
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  • On 13 April 2016, the Facebook page Thinking Humanity published a video that purported to show orchestra players bringing whales to the surface of the ocean with its music: This Facebook post went viral and racked up more than 3 million views within a week of its initial posting. While Thinking Humanity presented the video as if it showed a genuine event, it isn't real. The video is actually a commercial for Optus, an Australian telecommunications company: This whale song campaign was developed by advertising agency M&C Saatchi, and was first published in 2009: While M&C Saatchi set out to create music that would be reminiscent of whale song, but still appealing to humans, the whales in the video were not real, but instead were created by digital arts studio Animal Logic. The whale song ad campaign also consisted of a web site which allowed users to interact with whales through their keyboards: People have been making music with whales for decades. In 1970, Song with a Humpback Whale (recorded by a team led by marine scientist Roger Payne) was released, and became the most popular environmental album in history; singer Judy Collins used some of those recordings in her album Whales and Nightingales, which subsequently went gold: Whether whales actually like human music is up for debate. In 1999, Seattle's Cantabile Choir organized a concert around Washington state's San Juan islands: No whales surfaced dramatically from the deep to dance to the orchestra in that case, but about a dozen orcas reportedly showed up. (en)
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