A concert of singing porpoise, normally not heard by humans, features at the Festival of World Cultures ‘Window onto the world’ in the coastal city of Gdansk.

The first day of the festival is devoted to the sound project Amplificador 5 by Krzysztof Topolski. A Bluetooth transmitter installed in The Old Town Hall in Gdańsk will enable people to connect to the concert via their mobile phones. Recordings of synthetic representations of sounds emitted by porpoises will be transformed into mobile phone ringtones and will be available in mp3 format.

Porpoises communicate on frequencies beyond the range of human ear.

The concert bring to light the plight of the Baltic population of porpoises, at risk of extinction. Since 1984 it is on the list of protected species.

The 6th Festival of World Cultures will also feature concerts of music from Turkey, Serbia, Great Britain and  Belarus, as well as work shops and film shows.

The Festival is not an ethno or folk event, rather as the organisers say it is a ‘response by artists to questions occurring in surrounding reality and search for common artistic denominator for people of different cultures.”  (ab)