Susannes Kulning an inspiration for AVATAR

Los Angeles ethnomusicologist Wanda Bryant tells students at UCLA that she was listening to Susannes herding call for inspiration for big movie AVATAR!

LA Ethnomusicologist Brings Otherworldly Sounds to Biggest Motion Picture of All Time

Some of the examples I brought in were from a woman named Susanne Rosenberg who does these beautiful Swedish cattle herding calls that are phenomenally gorgeous. I took in South African mining songs, girls’ greeting songs from Burundi, Bolivian aerophones, singing from Comoros Islands (between Madagascar and Mozambique), Värttinä, which is a Finnish female singing group, voices from the Naga culture in Northeast India.
Los Angeles ethnomusicologist Wanda Bryant
http://www.music.ucla.edu/blog/2010/02/02/avatar_ethnomusicology/