{"id":139446,"date":"2024-11-04T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=139446"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:52:09","slug":"when-tree-trunks-speak","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/science-and-humanities\/when-tree-trunks-speak-139446\/","title":{"rendered":"When tree trunks speak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Communication at a distance can be difficult in the impassable Amazon region. This is why the Bora, who live on both sides of the Colombian-Peruvian border, use a language substitute: drum sounds. The deep sounds produced by the hollowed-out tree trunks known as manguar\u00e9s reach much further than the human voice.<\/p>\n

Strictly speaking, the instruments used are not drums, but \u2018idiophones\u2019: the sound is not produced by a vibrating membrane, as is the case with classical drums, but the entire body of the instrument vibrates.<\/p>\n

Linguist Frank Seifart and ethnomusicologist Maurice Mengel discuss with each other and the audience how such signal drums are created and how messages can be reproduced with just a few tonal sounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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