So scientists have been keen to understand if the sound harmed the animals.
A coalition of environmental groups filed suit to stop the Navy from using a powerful new sonar system for detecting enemy submarines, saying the intense underwater sounds can harm whales and dolphins.
Clearly the handful of women the orchestra has belatedly admitted have done its sound no harm; but then no one but the orchestra's men thought they might.
Environmental groups sued the federal government on Wednesday to prevent the Navy from using sonar in maritime exercises off Hawaii, saying the sound could harm whales and other marine mammals.
Although there is still no clear explanation of how sound might harm the whales, the gulf strandings "just seemed too coincidental, given the history, " says Barbara Taylor, one of the vacationers and a whale researcher with the government's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California.
Women like Mz. Thang, Ms. Mocha, Kotton the Cutie, and Lady Shaundra all, at one point or another, defined the sound of Harm City Hit Squad and Knucklehead.
It is operated very carefully because over pitch sound may harm brain tissues.
The results, while hardly realistic, are full of the sights and sounds of bodily harm.
Underpinned by a restless, agitated bassline sampled from Billy Cobham's Stratus, opener Safe from Harm sounds dusky in the most literal sense.
Michael Jasny, a senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private group in New York that has sued the Navy to reduce sounds that can harm marine mammals, praised the maps as "magnificent" and their depictions of sound pollution as "incredibly disturbing".
