What can listening and sound tell us about trees and forests? This is a multidimensional workshop, on-site in a local forest, exploring sound, listening, and interspecies communication using visualization and field recording techniques. Participants are introduced to techniques to expand their hearing sense and how this can strengthen their connection to the natural world. The workshop includes knowledge about biophony and the role it plays in forest and human health. Participants will be invited to connect to trees using mind’s eye techniques while learning about biological activity beneath the forest floor and within trees, and the way trees communicate with their communities. Participants will be introduced to field recording and contact microphone techniques to intimately listen to trees. The workshop incorporates acoustic ecology with improvisational and land-based methods.

This is a 3 hour workshop. Equipment can be provided to participants.

This workshop has been provided for communities of:

• Stanley Park Ecology Society, Vancouver, BC

• Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC

• New Adventures in Sound Art, South River, Ontario

• Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC