It probably comes as no surprise, if you’ve read anything else on my page, that I enjoy the BBC’s Dr. Who. This piece was inspired by the episode “The Beast Below” (Season 5, Episode 02, 2010.) In the same way I used images from open source science in last week’s fractal post, I used whale recordings to create an sfz-format instrument for this recording, to be able to play whale sounds on a keyboard. Alas, that was at least 14 years ago, so I’ve lost tract of my sources. It features sounds of balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), delphinapterus leucas (Beluga Whale), megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), and orcinus orca (Orca.)
The tuning I set this in is a Korean pentatonic Just Intonation scale, the original name of which translates to the “Wonderful” scale.