Alex South is a musician and researcher interested in aesthetic and ethical questions arising from the human use of the sounds of other animals. His interdisciplinary PhD, Cetacean Citations (2024), combined practice-led research from an ecomusicological perspective with bioacoustical studies on humpback whale song. Alex has published on animal culture, biomusicology, and ecomusicology, and lectures on undergraduate music courses at the University of St Andrews and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Compositions resulting from his doctoral research have been performed internationally and across the UK. This audio paper was conceived and written during Alex’s postdoctoral fellowship at IASH (University of Edinburgh).