Senior Lecturer Annie Lewandowski will present her installation Siren: Composers of the Sea at Mass MoCA on January 22, 2022 with collaborators Kyle McDonald and Amy Rubin. Siren immerses listeners in Lewandowski’s detailed recordings of humpback whale song, made with pioneering bioacoustician Katy Payne and the Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium. Lewandowski and McDonald’s analyses of these recordings find their creative expression through McDonald’s captivating and machine learning-driven synesthetic lighting design, which is vividly projected onto Rubin's elaborate sculpture made from marine debris recovered from the ocean around Cape Cod. The Siren installation draws audiences into a thick mix of the interior and exterior worlds of humpback singers.
Siren has been presented on Martha’s Vineyard, at the Johnson Museum of Art during the Whale Listening Project, and as part of the Neuroverse festival in NYC.
For more details: https://massmoca.org/event/siren-composers-of-the-sea/
