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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 Society, 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:

• Julie Andreyev, land-based instruments
  Lara Felsing, land-based methods, Medicine Wheel Blanket
  Myles V Feltenberger, Looper instrument
  Keira Madsen, Tree Voice instrument
  Giorgio Magnanensi, Sitka spruce resonators + diffusion
  Simon Lysander Overstall, land-based instruments, software programming

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