Wild Rumpus: The Open Fund for Organisations
Starting life as a global mass-participation audio project from Wild Rumpus and Timber Festival, ‘Sounds of the Forest’ has encouraged people during the global pandemic of covid-19 to gather 1 minute of sound from their local woodland and then upload the recording to an online sound map, allowing others to share in the harmonies of the natural world. Hundreds of people from over 50 countries have now contributed with their short audio postcards.
With funding from PRS Foundation, the sound map will now become a muse, as Wild Rumpus ask four musician’s to create new music in response to the sounds gathered, this will then be performed at Timber Festival in July 2021 as they gather for a weekend in the woods to celebrate the significance and magnificence of trees and forests.
Hearing from Hinako Omori, a musician with a love for synthesizers and anything that makes interesting sounds; Jason Singh a composer, musician, sound artist, creative producer, facilitator and performer; Erland Cooper a Scottish multi-instrumentalist and contemporary composer originally from Stromness and Cosmo Sheldrake a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer.