From dawn to dusk
Inside the changing soundscapes of a Colombian rainforest

How can listening to the sounds of nature be a way of sharing and developing understandings of biodiversity and climate change?

Our immersive 7-channel audio installation is the outcome of a partnership between Cucusonic, a collective of Colombian biological scientists and anthropologists, the University of Manchester’s Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, the charity In Place of War, Studio Mécanique (a music production facility in Switzerland), and the International Relations and Music Association (IRMA). 

This network was formed so as to record a bank of natural and bioacoustic sound recordings from the Neotropical forests of Colombia and to combine these with climate change data from a small farm as part of an immersive audio composition.

We will present the composition along with a short film about the project and discuss the idea behind the work, that the sounds of habitats and species such as birds, bats and frogs can be heard in different ways: as a measure of biodiversity, as a feature of the cultural imagination of local communities, as a creative resource for musicians to compose with and as a means of connecting to climate data.

This event is part of PeopleFest, held during the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA). Free admission. Book your free ticket here. #asapeoplefest @asapeoplefest

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