The ’60s gave us many artistic firsts from pop and performance art to psychedelic rock and free jazz to interspecies music-making between humans and whales. From saxophonist Paul Winter’s Common Ground to Judy Collins‘ Whales and Nightingales to pioneering synthesist Bernie Krause’s Ocean Wonders, musicians have engaged in and recorded a call-and-response with these massive sea mammals that has produced some singular sonic wonders and oddities. With his cheekily titled new album, Orcas’ Greatest Hits, Jim Nollman is adding what may be the most varied and expansive chapter to this tiny but intriguing corner of the musical universe.
Nollman is an avant-garde sound artist, guitarist and naturalist whose work stands at…