Forest Listening (2019-2024)

Forest Listening is an audio-visual installation that explores the soundscape of a rainstorm from inside forest earth. The field recording of raindrops crashing into dry earth was gathered in the Forest of Mar, Scotland, in June 2018. 

The banners are a sound visualisation technique that translates and augments the unnoticed sonic depths of the sylvan soundscape. 

This installation presents an alternative sensory perspective of the woodland and forms part of a wider body of practice-based research that considers the importance of forests in the time of climate and ecological breakdown.

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Forest Listening was made in partnership with Surrey Hills Arts and supported by Techne Doctoral Training Partnership, Watts Artist Village and the National Trust.