Tapp Lars Arnesson, owner of a traditional Swedish seasonal farm near Malung, Sweden, practices the vocal technique known as kulning that is used to call cattle back after a day’s grazing, and which featured in the Disney movie Frozen 2. Photo: AFP
Frozen 2 had it: like a song, this high-pitched, wordless cow call now has its own concerts
- Kulning, a form of Scandinavian cattle-calling that dates back to the Middle Ages, is rising in popularity and even taught at prestigious music schools
- The hypnotic and entrancing art has other benefits besides beguiling bovines: as a means of expressing oneself. ‘It’s very releasing,’ one tutor says
Tapp Lars Arnesson, owner of a traditional Swedish seasonal farm near Malung, Sweden, practices the vocal technique known as kulning that is used to call cattle back after a day’s grazing, and which featured in the Disney movie Frozen 2. Photo: AFP
