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Audio Meditation | Hanna Tuulikki: How to meet a seal


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In this mediation, Hanna 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.
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