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Heartwood project

Contacted David Dunn to ask for advice on how best to capture the internal sounds made by trees. David's work has been a complete inspiration - notably his recordings of the acoustic ecology of pinyon ...

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Heartwood project

Constructing the sensor array. The idea is to capture the environment, as sensed by the tree, and to use this to control the sounds during performance. I've obtained a range of sensors, which measure ...

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Heartwood project

Still on the hunt for interesting sounds made by ash trees. Fallen tree found in Pamphill, a victim of the winter storms. While it is sad to see such a great tree come to grief, it provides a great op ...

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Heartwood project

April 2014. Karen has finished writing the first versions of the choral pieces that will form part of Heartwood. First attempts at performing them - even outside under a tree - sound wonderful! Karen ...

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Heartwood project

March 2014. I have been collecting ash samara, which are now falling off the trees and starting to germinate. A great cloud of tiny flies, a kind of Psyllid I think, has hatched out of the seeds I col ...

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Heartwood project

February 2014. Recording the sounds that ash trees make. I have been using a stereo pair of contact microphones to explore the internal soundworld of ash trees (as recommended by Chris Watson - thanks ...

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Live at SIX Gallery, Boscombe

Performance as part of Seers Dirge, March 26th, SIX Gallery Boscombe - click here for more

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