Me & My Whale

“…would you like to come back to mine for some krill?”

Sound takes centre stage alongside a misanthropic submarine captain who falls in love with a whale. Featuring a human, a submarine, the entire ocean, underwater singing, motion-capture, generative programming, human-computer interaction, a love song to cetaceans (both toothed and baleen), and one very lonely whale.

Me & My Whale is a performance project that calls out the damaging way we appropriate the sounds of the ocean using an absurdist blend of techniques from sound art, contemporary theatre and new music. Created by aquatic apes and all round weirdos Xavier Velastin and Hannah Mook.

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WHAT THE PRESS SAY

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Whales & Porpoises Weekly
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – The Abyssal Plain Theatre Review
⭐ – The We Love Drilling For Oil And Killing Animals Gazette

“You make me proud to be who I am.”
– a sperm whale once said this to me

“the most beautiful sounds from the simplest of actions … in appearance, XVelastín is one with the sea”
– Ruby from Ragged CULT Magazine on Xavier’s last dip down to London, [whalesong] at the Camden Fringe.

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Weds 10 October at 7.30pm
Stage One, stage@leeds
Tickets £10 / £7.5 + 50p bf ~ http://bit.ly/iloveplankton

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Me & My Whale exists with the support of The Hopbarn, stage@leeds and Arts Council England.
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