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He directed one of [[Greenpeace|Greenpeace's]] first overseas projects, at [[Iki Island]], [[Japan]], where fishermen were slaughtering dolphins to compensate for human overfishing. |
He directed one of [[Greenpeace|Greenpeace's]] first overseas projects, at [[Iki Island]], [[Japan]], where fishermen were slaughtering dolphins to compensate for human overfishing. |
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He is the founder of [[Interspecies (organization)|Interspecies]], which sponsors research on communicating with animals through music and art, and promotes a model for communion between species. Interspecies' best-known field project is a twenty-five-year study using live music to interact with the wild [[orca]]s who inhabit the west coast of [[Canada]]. Nollman is currently directing a project in [[Arctic Russia]] to protect the last [[Beluga (whale)|beluga whales]] in [[Europe]]. |
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Revision as of 20:05, 16 October 2012
Jim Nollman (born 31 January 1947 in Boston) is a composer of music for theatre, an internationally distinguished conceptual artist, and an environmental activist. He graduated from Tufts University in 1969.
In 1973, he was commissioned to compose a Thanksgiving Day radio piece for a U.S. national network, and recorded himself singing children's songs with three hundred turkeys. He has recorded interspecies music with wolves, desert rats, deer, elk, whales, and dolphins. He has also released several albums on Folkways Records, including Playing Music with Animals: Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves and 20 Orcas.
He directed one of Greenpeace's first overseas projects, at Iki Island, Japan, where fishermen were slaughtering dolphins to compensate for human overfishing.
Publications
Jim Nollman is the author of five books, including The Man Who Talks to Whales (Sentient Publications, ISBN 0-9710786-2-9), originally published under the title Dolphin Dreamtime (Bantam Books, 1987)[1] and Why We Garden (Sentient Publications, ISBN 1-59181-025-6). He has also written essays which are anthologized in several collections of nature writing. He is contributing editor of the largest whale site on the Internet, with 10,000 visitors a month.[2]
External links
- Homepage: Sentient Publications, Boulder, CO (biography)
- Interspecies Homepage
- Interspecies Magazine Directory
- Nollman Discography on Folkways
References
- ^ http://www.doyletics.com/_arj1/dolphind.htm
- ^ "Usage Statistics for www.interspecies.com (January 2007)". Retrieved 13 June 2007.