""To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall..."" Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

Inspired by the collaboration with the commissioning flutist, this work incorporates elements from Franz Schubert’s ""Der Lindenbaum"", Deep Listening© movement practices and acoustic-ecology-inspired field recordings. The piccolo player must follow a series of choreographic steps and movements that correspond to the sounds and patterns of the fingerings as well as to the ways trees and forests are formed. This work invites the player to become part of the pre-recorded sounds and to inhabit the space in a way that embodies and sonifies the performer’s mythical transformation from human to tree. The work is designed to elicit memory, dreamtime and imagination to bring us closer to the elements of what make up the material of the instrument being played, and to remind of us of our dear old friends, trees."

2016

moving piccolist and fixed media