Branching Songs

In cities, trees are seen predominantly as entities that beautify streets, parks and gardens. Often they’re regarded obstacles to urban development, where their importance ecosystem health plays a secondary role economic growth. How can multispecies art offer new perspectives on crucial contributions life? Branching Songs is project with old in the Vancouver area, including ‘1308 Trees’, forest sites being cleared for Transmountain Pipeline expansion. The intention bear witness who supporting well-being of human nonhuman life. combines technologies, such 360° photography video, ambisonic geophonic sound recording, biomidi data, contact mic approaches from acoustic ecology, creativity, performance. team produced methods working collaboratively composed collection soundscapes accompanying photos videos. present complex biophony anthropophony each site, weaving soundings electromagnetic fields by our touch interactions tree bodies. gestures improvisational, responding emergent sounds heard specific features participating tree. Multiple microphones allow us listen varied refracted across body. Our video article includes an introduction project, we developed, two soundscape compositions visuals collaboration.@font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 6 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 415 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Helvetica Neue";panose-1:2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-452984065 1342208475 16 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin:0in;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times Roman";}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}