- Jim Nollman
Jim Nollman (b.
Boston , 1947) is a composer of music for theatre, an internationally distinguishedconceptual artist , and anenvironmental activist . He graduated fromTufts 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 , anddolphins .He directed one of Greenpeace's first overseas projects, at
Iki Island ,Japan , where fishermen were slaughtering dolphins to compensate for human overfishing.Interspecies
He is the founder of
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 wildorca s who inhabit the west coast ofCanada . Nollman is currently directing a project inArctic Russia to protect the last beluga whales inEurope , and is learning how to communicate with these whales.Publications
Jim Nollman is the author of five books, including "The Man Who Talks to Whales" (Sentient Publications, ISBN 0-9710786-2-9) 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 cite web
url=http://www.interspecies.com/stats/webalizer/usage_200701.html
title=Usage Statistics for www.interspecies.com (January 2007)
accessdate=2007-06-13] .ee also
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Michael J. Cohen
* Mark Fischer
*Hardy Jones
*Andy Ridinger External links
* [http://www.interspecies.com Interspecies Homepage]
* [http://www.brettalton.com/interspecies Interspecies Magazine Directory]References
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