forestscapes

How can soundscaping serve as a method to attend to forest life and the many different ways of narrating and relating to forests, forest issues and forest protection and restoration efforts?

forestscapes explores and documents generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound materials to support “collective inquiry” into forests as living cultural landscapes.

In contrast to listening as individual immersion in curated recreations of nature, the project explores listening as a collective practice of unsettling and reconsidering nature-culture relations and how ecologies are mediatised, commodified, laundered and contested.

forestscapes has had listening labs, workshops and installations at re:publica, Science Gallery London, 4S-EASST, Livingmaps and beyond. It is a collaboration with Maud Borie, Liliana Bounegru, Angela Y. T. Chan, Andrés Saenz de Sicilia, Zack Scholl and others. More about the project can be found here.