Melos Amoris (songs of mice and whales)
Spectrograms, prints on tracing paper, mounted on cardboard, Berlin, 2013
Despite all differences, mice and whales share one feature: their singing. While the whales’ chants are quite familiar, the mice’s songs long time remained hidden, since they take place in the ultrasonic range, inaudible to human ears.
The sound recordings of Melos Amoris document the attempt to translate a humpback whale song for a common house mouse. The playback of the whale song to the mouse took place in the high frequencies. Recorded and shifted back into the range of human hearing, the vocal responses of the mouse become audible, like a delicate whistkig sound, interacting with the song of the whale and the noise of the sea.
with the kind support of Avisoft Bioacoustics