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A brief conclusion to the Heartwood project. Very many thanks to all who participated - I received a lot of very positive feedback about it. The event had some 4000 visitors in total, over the three d ...

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Not long to go now before the performance. Great inspiration from attending Fort Process in East Sussex - brilliant set of sound installations and musical performances in the setting of Newhaven Fort. ...

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Very helpful advice from Alistair Goolden about how to visually present the piece (thanks Alistair!). One of his key points was the need to achieve a visual coherence, or continuity, between different ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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January 10th 2014 - visit to the site at Littlebredy with Kathie and Karen, conducting some vocal experiments and listening to the sounds that ash trees make.

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