Sound Bank: Cucusonic Origins
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This Sound Bank presents a sample of the Colombian nature sounds recorded as part of Cucusonic - a collaborative project, harnessing the multiple sonic registers of animal sound to bring together different groups of people in Colombia and explore the transformative potential of biodiversity.
"cucu": the onomatopoeic Spanish word for the sound made by amphibians.
"sonic": the nature of sound
As part of the project, recordings of animal sounds were shared with musicians and producers to encourage creative dialogues and new musical compositions that translate into messages of hope to a wider, international audience. The main outcome of this process was 'Cucusonic', an album released in 2021 in partnership with In Place of War. This unique album will be re-released on our own EarthSonic Record Label before the end of 2024.
Nature sound recordings by Rupert Cox, Alejandro Valencia-Tobon, Ana María Gómez, Juan C. Arredondo, Danny Zurc, Carlos Restrepo and Diego Calderón-Franco.
Cucusonic is a partnership between The University of Manchester, the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and In Place Of War, with additional support from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), and Kone Foundation (Finland).
