Education
He graduated from Tufts University in 1969.
He graduated from Tufts University in 1969.
He has recorded interspecies music with various other animals. He released several albums on Folkways Records, including Playing Music with Animals: Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves and 20 Orcas. Nollman directed one of Greenpeace"s first overseas projects, at Iki Island, Japan, where fishermen were slaughtering dolphins to compensate for human overfishing.
In 1978, Nollman founded Interspecies, which sponsors artists" efforts to communicate with animals through music and art
Its best-known project is a twenty-five-year study using live music to interact with wild orcas off the west coast of Canada.