Whales and Aliens

Whales and Aliens is a video podcast designed as a practical guide to interspecies and interstellar communication. Developed as a hybrid art-science project, it builds on my background as a musician and my research into the communicative capacities of non-human minds. Each episode examines methods for bridging species and evolutionary divides, and features astrophysicists and astrobiologists, humpback whale and orca researchers, paleontologists and First Nation knowledge keepers.

Podcast: Whales & Aliens: SETI in the salish Sea

Whales and Aliens

Interstellar Vision

Whales and Aliens is a visionary 8-part podcast and video series that that explores non-human intelligence through the lens of whale song, astrobiology, and Indigenous knowledge systems.

Whales and Aliens is made possible with the support from TELUS STORYHIVE and will be available for free on TELUS Optic TV April 2026.

www.whalesaliens.com

Interstellar Vision

The series features a wide range of disciplines and worldviews to better explore how we might understand life in the universe. Each episode features leading experts and creative thinkers who challenge how we define intelligence, communication, and the very nature of life in the Salish Sea

METI Mission

Interstellar Vision

METI Mission

The podcast mission is to inform the search for extraterrestrial life by drawing parallels between whale societies, human civilization, and alien intelligences. Biological SETI is an emerging subfield of SETI and explores how nonhuman cognition might serve as a blueprint for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence. METI extends the goal by designing and transmitting messages intended for extraterrestrial intelligences,