Luciano Maggiore, Very cheap non-human animal imitations, 2024

Luciano Maggiore’s Very Cheap Non-Human Animal Imitations amicably lampoons the wonderful presentations of bird songs and other protagonists of the animal world published by ornithologist and editor Jean-Claude Roche in the 1980s. “The recordings were collected in 2021 on the couch at home, using an old cassette recorder. Without attempting to refine a vocal technique, I relied on the first impression and timbral proximity that I believed I had in common with some of the animal-non-humans I imitated. I hope that soon, as the world moves in an anti-speciesist direction, the naivete of this work may become an outrageous homage to a different present.”

Listen to the excerpt

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01_mosquito (01:53)
02_indris (01:06)
03_sheep (01:59)
04_fox (00:46)
05_wolf howling (06:05)
06_alligator hissing (00:51)
07_crow (00:28)
08_chimpanzee (00:38)