The Amateur Ethnomusicologist Who’s Spent A Life Capturing The Music Of A Remote Culture

Laurent Jeanneau is an amateur ethnomusicologist who has traveled across the Zomia collecting sounds. In an update to the old colonial ramblers, under the name Kink Gong, Jeanneau is also a composer who incorporates his sound recordings into live performances. Between 1996 and 2014, he amassed a huge collection of field recordings, totally nearly 160 CDs of raw sound.