The Performing With Trees Workshop is designed to enhance your listening and touch awareness of trees, and co-create a performance and sound art with them. This workshop grew out of a class project in Andreyev’s MDIA300: Media, Sound, Ecology course (performance examples can be found in an e-collection in the ECU Library). Student Cara Jacobsen developed it into a workshop that guides you through the process of creating a collaborative, improvisational performance with a tree, using listening and contact microphone techniques. The workshop incorporates the Tree Awareness exercise (below). 

Note: If you don’t want to do a performance or make sound art, you can just follow the simple listening and observational exercises at the beginning of the workshop PDF and listen to the Tree Awareness exercise (below).