And people say we monkey around MONKEYS MAKIN’ MUSIC Similar to
my previous post on cat music and a feline’s response to the
music created by its own species - this time round, we’ll be
looking at monkeys. Monkeys couldn’t care less about human music
as it does not affect them emotionally or alter their behaviour
in any way, shape or form. Musician David Teie and psychologist
Charles Snowdon wanted to explore this further and thus began to
create music composed by the structure and pitch of Tamarin
monkey calls. They realised that the ‘species-specific’ music
composed significantly impacts the behaviour and emotions of
Tamarin monkeys; observed by both Teie and Snowdon. While
composing the songs, Teie imitated monkey calls with his cello
then electronically boosted up the sounds three octaves higher
to reach a pitch that matched the monkeys’ voices. When played
back to the monkeys, their reactions were observed as below.
Fearful Monkey Music - Click here to listen “Monkeys reacted to
this by increasing their