The Shelltone Whale project is going to be in Maui-Hawaii from the 22rd. of March to the 05th. of April.We are going to shoot a 52 minutes documentary about whale songs.

Dan Sythe founder of the Whale Song Project will be there along with David Rothenberg, author of Thousand mile song. 

Nice pics comin' soon..

San Francisco & the Farallonnes Islands Sanctuary

Playing the Shelltone on the Golden gate, with my friend Vern Bryant, CEO of " SF Bay Whale Watching ", a genuine whale lover and a wonderful human being. Thanks so much to Vern for his kindness and the warm welcome he and his wife Cynthia Rose gave me during my stay with them in Sausalito. Nothing would have been possible without them.

Vern with naturalist Melinda Nakagawa at the Farallonnes Island.
Naturalist Carol Keiper preparing the hydrophone to listen to the humpback whales songs.
First communication attempt with a microphone and an underwater speaker. Thanks to Captain Joe Nazar for his precious help.
My first humpback. Curious ?
Tail !!!! To be continued.....

The Cornwalls

Whales song at Land's end...

Yann Viot from the Shelltone Whale Project and Richard Hardy from "SAS" at Saint Agnes, office of Surfers Against Sewage pursuing similar goals...

Italian Connection

Blowin' the tower...

With our friend Gianni Placido a great Didgeridoo Master in Bologna.
With Gianni Placido at the Didgeridoo convention in Airvault, France.

Production !!!!

Thanks to the Caliplast Team from La Planche , Brittany france

we started manufacuring the injection mold of the Shelltone.

The mold in progress...

First attempt...

Finally after two years of R&D....the first Shelltone was born....

It's time to play now !!!

Watch the first Shelltone production tests.

Prototype launched....

This is the first prototype we produced.

Jean François Petiot...tuning at the lab.
After a few prototypes...we had "our" sound ! The whale sounds ...

It was time then to figure how to build the injection mold in order to produce series.

Watch the prototype tuning by Jean François Petiot.

Designing an Ocean Sound Device ?

Designing a conch shell that could reproduce the Ocean sounds, the whales songs....

Reproducing whales and dolphins sounds in order to communicate with them...

We first started, with Jean-François Petiot and François Tavard at the acoustic research laboratory of Ecole Centrale de Nantes, to study the resonance peaks and impedance of the natural Triton Pacifica shell. One thesis was made upon the subject.

From this, we started to design what should be the chamber of resonance of our own shell.

We came up with a 3D pattern of the future Shelltone....

It was time for us to build prototypes.