In the Throats of Trees

In the Throats of Trees is a stereo audio piece, with an accompanying booklet of listening instructions, exploring the “voices” of trees. The composition is built up of recordings of the artist vocalizing with the sound of wind through the branches of five species of trees - larch, birch, pine, spruce, maple – making a dark forest of sound. 

The listening instructions invite the audience to listen as trees. Trees operate in a completely different scale of time and movement than do humans -- what might we learn from them if we stopped to listen? In the Throat of Trees proposes a culture grounded in speculative listening to non-human, rooted voices of the world around us.