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Jim Nollman
12+ albums
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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. 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 wild orcas who inhabit the west coast of Canada. Nollman is currently directing a project in Arctic Russia to protect the last beluga whales in Europe. Jim Nollman is the author of five books, including The Man Who Talks to Whales originally published under the title Dolphin Dreamtime and Why We Garden. He has also written essays which are anthologized in several collections of nature writing. He is contribut
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Playing Music with Animals: Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves and 20 Orcas
Playing Music With Animals
Playing Music With Animals: The Interspecies Communication Of Jim Nollman With 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves And 20 Orcas
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Belly Of The Whale
Playing Music With Animals: The Interspecies Communication Of Jim Nollman With 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves, 20 Orca Whales
Music for Swimming and Flying
The New Old Time
What the Dolphin Said
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A Fish That's a Song
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Playing Music with Animals: Interspecies Communication of Ji
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Jim Nollman – Playing Music with Animals: Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves and 20 Orcas [FW6118]
Playing Music with Animals: Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 W