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E m p o w e r i n g t h e R a i n f o r e s t s o f W a l e s
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We need 7 trees to breathe for a year - That's more than 500 trees each, to breathe for a lifetime. Imagine then, how deep is the forest needed for your entire family to breathe, or furthermore, how vast are the forests that have served the ancestors of your bloodlines? It has taken millions of trees over thousands of centuries to bring you to this Now. Everyday, inside these trees, an ancient love song is whispered for you & for your future generations, yet it is never heard by the human ear. Environmental Sound Artist, Cheryl Beer, is repurposing hearing aid technology at Wales' remaining pockets of declining, temperate rainforest, where she is collating the inner biorhythms of the forest floor & transposing these natural heartbeats into digital sound sculptures. By notating the internal sonic landscape of the soil, Cheryl will become a Conduit Composer, capturing music that enables us, for the first time, to hear deeply the inner song of our most ancient rainforests. |
Notating the Biorhythms of our most sacred Rainforests, right here, in Wales
Gretha: The Song of the Sapling
A single sapling changed a world view regarding climate change & to honour this, Cheryl is working with the saplings of the forest to collate their inner biorhyhtms as digital sound. Wise Moss Lulabye
What could be more wise than moss that has survived in Wales for more than 10,000 years? Cheryl is creating a lush soundscape that reunites the moss of all 4 rainforest pockets. Flowers, Leaves & Lyric
Cheryl is keeping a poetic diary in repsonse to the biorhythms of flowers and leaves within the rainforests, creating a Plant Podcast recorded live from the forest floor. Planting Poetic
Watch the poetic documentation of plants as they sing in the early evening. where Cheryl captures light in motion, as it dances with the flora & fauna. |
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Dragon's Breath
Bathe in the early morning birdsong of Wales' 4 remaining pockets of ancient rainforest. As the mist of dragon's breath rises above the trees, Cheryl responds to the songs of our feathered companions. Moonshadow Whisperer
Where there is light, there is darkness ; Cheryl embraces the dance of the moon through the branches, to capture the ambience of the rainforest at rest. A Symphony of Seven Trees
The 6 soundscapes listed above, are a journey to this end: A Symphony of Seven Trees, where the biorhythms are notated to compose music that brings togehter all 4 pockets of rainforest for the first time in 10,000 years. Where once the trees were joined underground by mycelium, now they are entwined by digital & musical performance, recorded & streamed from the depths of the rainforests. |
We need 7 trees to breathe for a year - That's more than 500 trees each, to breathe for a lifetime.
Imagine then, how deep is the forest you must plant, to keep your bloodline alive ...
Imagine then, how deep is the forest you must plant, to keep your bloodline alive ...