Recording
Cambodian Music of Forest
Cambodian Music of Forest is a set of recordings of music by ethnic minorities in rural Cambodia, made in 1969 and 1970.[1] It is held in the Bophana Center Archive as part of the Thonevath Pou collection.[1]
About the recording
The music was recorded during a study mission by the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, among ethnic minority communities living in the mountains and the countryside.[1] The selections move from solo and group singing to a solo on the pey pork, a Kuay woman's voice, a spirit guardian of the Kuay, an invocation to Preah Pisnukar, the music of a traditional marriage, the voices of Cham women and music for a buffalo sacrifice.[1]
Contents
The recording holds 13 selections, given here with their start times:[2]
- 00:00 Man Singing
- 02:43 Two Young Men
- 05:26 Solo by a young man
- 06:27 Song of a young man
- 09:33 Two men singing in a chorus
- 12:57 Solo pey pork
- 14:44 Polyphony
- 16:17 Voice of a Kuay woman
- 19:18 The guardian of spirit Kuay
- 25:17 Invocation to Preah Pisnukar
- 27:12 Cambodian traditional marriage
- 31:20 Voice of a Cham women
- 33:39 Music for buffalo sacrifice
Credits
The recordings were made by the study mission of the Royal University of Fine Arts and produced by the Société français de productions phonographiques. They come from the collection of Thonevath Pou, and the Bophana Center has thanked Mr. Pov Thonevath for providing these rare archives. As music recordings, they name no narrator or interviewer.[1]
The collection
Traditional songs and music form one part of the Bophana Center's audiovisual holdings, and in June 2020 its database held 1,436 audio archives. The center's archive department collects sound recordings and other material connected with Cambodia. It digitizes what it holds, and its language program translates material into Khmer, English and French before public release.[3]
Access
- Bophana Archives Online: Cambodian Music of Forest
- The archives can be viewed at the Bophana Center during its opening hours.[3] No item number or duration is published.[1]