Nobody really knows what dinosaurs sounded like. Sure, we all can recognize the T-Rex’s roar from Jurassic Park, but even that was just an educated guess on the sound that creature could produce.
Courtney Brown, an associate professor at Southern Methodist University has taken a different approach to discovering what noises dinosaurs actually made, through the power of music.
For decades, Brown has crafted instruments modeled after the skulls of dinosaurs, specifically hadrosaurs, duck-billed dinosaurs that roamed the planet some 70 million years ago.
Brown has been constructing these instruments for more than a decade and calls the instruments her “dinosaur choir.”
Brown told the Dallas Morning News her goal with the dinosaur choir is to bring “this embodied experience into dinosaur sounds. By blowing into the dinosaur, you kind of become one with it the same way when I play the accordion, I feel like I’m one with the accordion. I’m interested in developing this really deep empathy with something that is extinct.”
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