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THE 2021 FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
RUNNING 1-30 NOVEMBER 2021
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Cucusonic: translating bioacoustic recordings into new music in Colombia

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What’s on offer?

A short film about a GCRF funded project, investigating biodiversity monitoring and loss by turning recordings of natural sounds and bio-acoustic data from the forests of Colombia into musical compositions. The online screening and discussion, incorporates specimens from the Manchester Museum and explores the research collaboration of Cucusonic a collective of Colombian biological scientists, anthropologists and musicians, with the University of Manchester’s Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and charity In Place of War, who together created a community network and invited music producers to use the natural sounds they collected to create music

Who’s leading the event?

Dr Rupert Cox, Director Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester

 

Open to

This event is open to all

Of particular interest to

People with a particular interest in music, nature, and biodiversity

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