SONIC MATTER_openlab: Focus on Marcus Maeder, Labverde and Vozes da Floresta, Brazil

Vozes da floresta delivers to our ears the diurnal cycles and seasonal changes in the soundscape of the Brazilian Amazon forest. The project takes off from activist Bruno Manser, who in 1992 pointed out the threat to the Borneo rainforests through deforestation. He let the forest and its indigenous population speak, along with scientists and journalists. This new project does the same, weaving the human voices of artists and scientists into the multilayered, densely structured sounds produced by the voices of the non-humans inhabitants of the Amazon. The rainforest soundscape becomes the music of life.