Come dive into the creative minds of humpback whales in this epic call to beauty and action.

After making waves on Martha’s Vineyard and at Cornell University, Siren is coming to NYC and you can’t miss it. High-fidelity whale song recordings, a machine learning-driven light show, and an elaborate marine debris sculpture come together to create an installation you have to see and hear to believe. Sound artist Annie Lewandowski, artist and coder Kyle McDonald, and scenic designer Amy Rubin explore a meeting of intelligences—human, humpback whale, and artificial—in Siren: Listening to Another Species on Earth. 

Siren immerses listeners in Lewandowski’s detailed recordings of humpback whale song, made with pioneering bioacoustician Katy Payne and the Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium in 2019. 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, resulting in both a call to beauty and a call to action to protect marine mammals from entanglement.