Dendrophony Diagrams | Liz K Miller

Dendrophony Diagrams (2023)

Listening to the Dendrophony is a research project that explores how visual diagramming alters the listening experience. This visual exploration of sound aims to expand the act of listening beyond the auditory and into the multimodal. The visual is used to enhance the listening experience by highlighting previously unnoticed sonic details and providing alternative perspectives through which to consider familiar sound through a new lens.

Listening to the Dendrophony #1

This flow diagram examines six field recordings of trees from woodlands in the UK. These sylvan soundscapes are of oak leaves, a chestnut grove rainstorm, fallen pine needles, transpiration, burning logs and creaking pines.

Listening to the Dendrophony #2

This Venn diagram explores the relationship between dendrophony (tree sounds), geophony (earth sounds) and biophony (animal sounds). The ten sylvan soundscapes are oak leaves, a chestnut grove rainstorm, fallen pine needles, transpiration, burning logs, creaking pines, decaying birch logs, swaying ash trunk, pinecones splitting open and creaking roots.