Listening in Trees
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My practice adopts various methods of listening in order to initiate a deepened awareness and relationship to forests, plants and animals, particularly in the Borders and on the West of Scotland. I follow Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening practices and extend my senses through using various mics, utilising an ethical practice by listening through holes already present in trees, for example. Recently, I have been experimenting with sensitising myself to seasonal forest time such as listening with contact mics to changing movements of xylem and phloem and the resonances of changing canopy cover and the sounds of migratory species across seasons. I listened around and within the same larch in the Tweed Valley across different seasons. This work became a photo and written essay called Arboreal Intimacies: vibrating bodies, sharing wounds, navigating across messy boundaries, published in the sound art journal Row of Trees, 2024 which can be found here.
