We completed our second field trip to the Mount Lumut forests near Berong village in North Barito, Central Kalimantan. The village is home to the indigenous rooted Dayak Taboyan.
With the support of the Berong community, we were able to make two field trips in August 2024 and June 2025, during which we could collect several 24-hour-long sound recordings in different locations in the forest. We learnt a lot during our time there.
Above all, we were stunned by how deeply intertwined the forest sounds are with the community’s ancestral knowledge and mythology.
After each of our field trip, the Berong community shared during two beautiful, timeless nights their memories and stories in collective listening sessions.
The field trips are part of a the research project, titled ‘Reflections on the History of Sound and Listening’, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office as part of its cultural preservation program.
