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SWS20 2020

Forest Talk Radio: Old Growth

FTR OG Poster
Temagami, ON, Canada
60 minutes
Free
Sound walk

In this second instalment of Forest Talk Radio, you find yourself deep in an ancient forest, struggling to make sense of your surroundings after you learn that trees have somehow commandeered the digital info-grid to hack into the human brain.

The story of Forest Talk Radio: Old Growth, is geo-located along the White Bear Trail in Temagami ON Canada. In this second-person choose-your-own-adventure style walking piece, you encounter a lively radio host who, in an effort to help you avoid becoming “afflicted,” explores how digital technology finds its natural analogue in the communication strategies that trees have developed over eons with fungi and social insects.

Though this Sound Walk is inspired by the profound wilderness and emotional topography of Temagami Ontario, it is not exclusively site-specific and thus can be experienced remotely as you stroll along your favourite forest trail.

Online version of the walk is found at http://cgeomap.eu/whitebearforest

FTR Old Growth Teaser

CC-BY-NC: David Merleau

Credits

Hosted by: David Merleau in partnership with the Municipality of Temagami

APA style reference

Merleau, D. (2020). Forest Talk Radio: Old Growth. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/forest-talk-radio-old-growth/

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A place to gaze. Conspectuses are viewpoints where the terrain opens itself naturally to the viewer, where the eye can thread in and out of the circle of hills, and names suggest a narrative sequence offering the possibility of beginning to know where you are. Traditional conspectus include suidhe (Gaelic, seat), used to view hunting.

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