ResourceHanna Tuulikki: How to meet a seal

Hanna Tuulikki: How to meet a seal

Audio Meditation and Methodology

In this mediation, British-Finnish artist Hanna Tuulikki invites you to be transported to the mouth of the River Ythan in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A large colony of grey and common seals call out from the estuary banks. The sound of their calls are carried in the wind.

Hanna shares two traditional seal-calling songs, and teaches an extract from one of these which she works with in her seal calling improvisations.

This traditional Scottish Gaelic seal-calling song comes from the collection of Marjory Kennedy Fraser, an early twentieth century folklorist. It is a simple song created entirely from wordless sounds that imitate the grey seal’s singing.

The IMA acknowledges, thanks, and pays our deepest respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that we work with and the Country we work on. 

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