The Animal Sound Society

The Animal Choir

Rixta van der Molen	Mie Frederike Fischer Christensen
Julia Olanders	Julia Olanders
Vita Evangelista	Marta Leonhardt
Boyeon Kang	Jurgis Lietunovas
Fransesca Buratelli	Jenela Kostova
Gabriel Nils Edvinsson	Carlijn Fransén
Stig Steiner	Carolin Hansson
Masaki Komoto	Masaki Komoto
Sarah Kate Gardiner	Sarah Kate Gardiner
Yasmina Mews	Hans Muller
Evita de Vos	Miyuki Inoue
Rutger Basen	Ina Porselius
Maria Lepistö	Yaakov Ehrlich

The Animal Choir is a choir of people, who, at some point in their life, learned to imitate animals.

Learning to imitating an animal is something that often takes place in the private. It is therefore quite special to meet up as a group and perform together, sharing this intimate talent. The choir is performing behind a banner, held up by two silent guards, preventing the audience to directly face the performers, only seeing their feet while listening to their voices.

Animals are expected to be performers, not only in Zoos, but also on Youtube as well as in our homes, as pets. To imitate animals is a way of paying tribute to them, their skills and labour of constantly performing for us humans. Not only were the animals the first motifs of drawings that humans ever produced. The animals are also the original performance artists!

About Three People And The Sounds They Make

Miyuki Inoue, who is an artist working primarily with her voice as a medium, once said that imitating is a way of trying to understand another being. Unlike Miyuki, most of the members are not professional performers, but they did have one reason or another to learn to imitate animals. Some people learn to imitate their pet cat, or the birds in their garden. Others learn to imitate animals that they have never even met.