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SWS23 2023

The Secret Sound of Trees

Beechenhurst - Forestry England, Speech House Road, Coleford, UK
25 minutes
free
English

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A slow walk, with additional music by Lau Nau & narration, guiding you through some of the internal sounds of the Forest of Dean (UK) such as sap, bark, xylem cells, tree & plant roots, moss & mycorrhizal networks.

Using highly sensitive microphones of his own design & innovative techniques, sound artist Jez riley French guides us through the fascinating, immense microscopic soundscape of plants and soil horizons. The process asks us to reconsider our ideas of such environments, and indeed our human concepts of nature itself.

Credits

Jez riley French - field recording, composition, sound design, text, narration
Lau Nau - additional music

Commissioned and produced by Sound UK. Funded by Arts Council England, The National Lottery Heritage Fund and PRS Foundation. In partnership with Forestry England

Thanks to Pheobe riley Law & Maureen French
Hosted by: Sound UK

APA style reference

French, J. (2023). The Secret Sound of Trees. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/the-secret-sound-of-trees/

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driftsinging

Drawing with (vocal) sound in response to place while passing through place. Driftsinging borrows from the Situationist Drift, and Baudelaire’s flâneur. Driftsinging also relates to the process of ‘sounding,’ the sonic measuring of distance and depth that locates position in place and ‘echo location’, the examination of place through sonic reflection and refraction, resonance and echo.

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