It began with a video.
Scrolling one night, we came across the haunting visuals of Tidebreakers, a small but powerful organization documenting the reality of cetacean captivity — orcas, dolphins, and whales trapped in shrinking tanks, swimming in algae-green water, waiting for an audience that never truly sees them.
That footage hit hard. It pulled on our hearts, and from that feeling came Xtraction — a short story written as an act of empathy and imagination. In it, a character makes a call that changes everything. What started as fiction became a seed for real-world action.
So we made the call.
Green Wave reached out to Morgan Lavery, CEO of Melt Creative and a longtime member of the Electronic Music Alliance (EMA). Morgan was immediately moved — not just by the story, but by the idea of transforming empathy into open-source art for change. He saw how visuals could become vessels for activism.
Morgan then shared the vision with his creative partner Josh Valenzuela, who, together with Daniel Trujillo, forms the acclaimed AI/XR electronic duo GANTASMO.
The collaboration clicked instantly. Within weeks, they produced a new track — “Hell Is a Very Small Place” — and released it for free use by anyone supporting cetacean liberation. Their sound is now the heartbeat of Cetadelic.
Melt Creative has designed 30 seamless VJ loops that anyone can download and use in their performances, installations, or livestreams — art for activism, made to be remixed, projected, and shared.
Cetadelic is a campaign, not a company. It’s an open invitation. Artists and visual creators everywhere are encouraged to use these sounds and visuals to spark a culture shift — to replace apathy with awareness, and entertainment with empathy.
We believe that while confronting imagery can awaken us, positive, visionary media sustains action. By blending Tidebreakers’ raw truth with psychedelic beauty and sound, we’re re-imagining what activism can look like: not just protest, but creative liberation.
This is how movements begin — one image, one sound, one story at a time.
Play visuals. Spread awareness. Save cetaceans.
Download the art packs ➜ Cetadelic.org