Photo gallery with soundscapes from Luis Devin's field research

BAMENDA XYLOPHONE (GRASSFIELDS OF NORTH-WEST CAMEROON)

Photo Diary of the fieldwork in Central Africa


Bamenda xylophone, from Luis Devin's fieldwork in Central Africa (Grassfields of North-West Cameroon)
Xylophone and single-skin drum in a village
near Bamenda (Grassfields of North-West Cameroon).

Soundscape: a piece of xylophone
polyrithmic music from Bamenda Grassfields.




Photo gallery of Luis Devin's field research, with soundscapes from the camps and African rainforest.
Section: Other Peoples and Places of Central Africa.

      Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/fieldwork/photo-diary.php?photo=41       Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.
The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka and the other Pygmy peoples live, is 19:55.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).