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“Our world is a complex matrix of vibrating energy, matter and air, just as we are made of vibrations. Vibration connects us with all beings and connects us to all things interdependently.” —Pauline Oliveros, Quantum Listening 

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Rehearsal for a Forest invites audiences to consider our relations with water, waves, trees, the land — through sound. Rehearsal for a Forest is a live indoor performance bringing the sounds of trees and forests to urban audiences. The Ensemble uses instruments hand-made from remnants and cast-offs of local trees and plants, combined with electroacoustic techniques, and improvisational approaches. The performance features a Tree Voice instrument activated through electromagnetic fields generated by living trees.
 

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Branching Songs Ensemble:

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• Julie Andreyev, land-based instruments
  Lara Felsing, land-based methods
  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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Performances:

• 2025, Listening in Relation Equinox Roundtable, Emily Car University of Art & Design, Vancouver

• 2024, 8East, Vancouver

• 2023, The New Media Gallery, New Westminster

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