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Recital With a Forest is a site-specific multispecies sound art performance that uses land-based processes involving trees and forests. The Recital is intended to be performed in a tree’d setting, or as an intervention in forest at risk for clear-cutting. The performance includes our hand-made instruments made of contact mics, biosensors, computer software, and land-based materials (cast offs from local trees, found feathers, stones and shells) used in collaboration with the trees. The performance features a Tree Voice instrument activated through electromagnetic fields generated by living trees on site. The Ensemble uses techniques of listening and responding through touch interaction with the trees.

 

Improvisational approaches are informed by listening to the emergent soundscape of the location as a score. This project is a sonic weaving of human touch, tree acoustics and forest liveliness — a multispecies creative event.
 

The Ensemble considers this work as a gesture of gratitude for forests.

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Performances and exhibitions:

• performance: Stanley Park, hosted by the Stanley Park Ecology Socitey, July 20, 2024.

• performance: Tuwanek Springs Forest, hosted by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Vancouver New Music, May 20, 2023. 

• exhibition: Sunshine Coast Arts Council, June 23-August 13, 2023.

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Branching Songs Ensemble:

• Giorgio Magnanensi, Resonators and diffusion

• Julie Andreyev, Tree and Lightning Stick instruments 

• Keira Madsen, Tree Voice instrument 

• Myles V Feltenberger, Looper instrument 

• Simon Lysander Overstall, Tree instrument and software programming 

 

Tree feelers by Julie Andreyev and Lara Felsing

Medicine Wheel Blanket by Lara Felsing

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