麻豆约拍

Episode 2 features the sound of Bayaka pygmies preparing for a 'net hunt'. A chorus of women sing to entice the bob茅 forest spirits out to bless the hunters.

The pygmies say the bob茅 assume a variety of forest forms, such as leaves and trees, and sometimes appear as glowing animal shapes that shimmer in the dark with phosphorescent mould. When they are satisfied that the group's singing is good, they may bless the hunt with a symbolic spitting sound.

The recording was made by Louis Sarno who left New Jersey in 1985 armed with a tape recorder and a one-way ticket to the Central African Republic and never came back. The Louis Sarno collection is curated by the Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford) and consists of more than 1,000 hours of Bayaka music and soundscapes.