Hearing Voices: Speakers / Languages
This interactive app was first developed in 2005 to accompany the Hearing Voices installation. Designed in collaboration with Rob Munro at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and updated in 2015 by David Nathan at ELP Publishing, the app presents superb recordings of highly endangered Khoi and San ‘click languages’, made in the Kalahari Desert in collaboration with linguist Dr Andy Chebanne and artist Denise Hawrysio. The updated app is nearing the end of its working life: the Windows version is still available from ELP Publishing (see below). The Mac version, compatible with macOS Monterey (12) or earlier, is available on request.
The Hearing Voices materials are currently being expanded into a dedicated online archive, which will include the original recordings, maps, and contextual documentation, as well as new video interviews with Dr Andy Chebanne and Professor Peter Austin. The archive will be available at sensitivebrigade.com in due course.
- A Foreword by David Toop, author of Ocean of Sound and Haunted Weather
- Voice recordings and photographs of 8 speakers of Naro, Junǀʼhoa, Xóõ, Gǀǀana, Gǀwi
- Maps and information about these languages
- Recordings of 2 Naro language choirs
- An exclusive interview with Roy Sesana, chair of First People of the Kalahari
- Information about language endangerment
- Interviews with Dr Andy Chebanne (University of Botswana) and Professor Peter Austin (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project)
