Symphonic Forest

To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, and as part of the global network coordinated by Soundtent.org, Voces del Bosque has been organizing annual sound camps across different forests in Ecuador since 2019. These camps broadcast the sounds of various ecosystems live, capturing the dawn chorus in real time. The transmissions are streamed via the Soundcamp platform and shared through international radio stations such as WGXC (USA) and Resonance Extra (UK), among others.

Interspecific Music

For the year 2021 we invited the musical group Ensamble de Viento to be part of the natural concert " Symphonic Forest " in Intillacta (Tucanopy) within the Chocó Andino Biosphere Reserve. This was the first interspecific music concert held in Ecuador.

For this concert this group created the “ Rondadores de Ave ” or musical instruments that use only the sounds of the vocalizations of the birds of the Chocó Andino. In this way, the artistic composition was made through the interaction of the musicians with the song of the birds. This type of composition that mixes the interaction of animal sounds with human-made instruments is known as "interspecific music."

Here we share a visual and sound sample of a piece of the concert recording (made by the ornithologist Manuel Sánchez). In this we can see that there is no acoustic overlap between the musicians and the song of the forest.

With the results of this first sound exploration, a Symphonic Forest concert presentation was made: interspecific music in the Andean Chocó of the group Ensamble del Viento at the Capitol Theater, in the city of Quito.

Here is the list of registered birds that participated during the concert performed by the ornithologist Alejandro Solano: