On July 27th, Saturday from 10am to 1pm, join us for a multisensory workshop with field recording tools to explore sound, listening, and interspecies communication in the forest.

What can sound and listening tell us about trees and forests? Julie Andreyev and the Branching Songs team lead this multidimensional workshop exploring sound, listening, and interspecies communication using visualization methods and field recording technologies. Participants will be introduced to techniques in expanding their hearing sense and how this can strengthen their connection to the natural world.

Participants will be invited to connect to trees using mind’s eye techniques while learning about biological activity beneath the forest floor and within trees, and the way trees communicate with their communities. Attendees will be introduced to field recording equipment and use contact microphones to intimately listen to trees. Sound art with trees will be explored through these technologies along with improvisational and land-based methods. Branching Songs website: https://www.branchingsongs.org/

Equipment is provided, but attendees are asked to bring 4 AA rechargeable batteries. Please bring water and an optional snack! Participants who have their own field recording equipment or wired over-ear headphones are welcome to bring them.

Program Leader Bio

Julie Andreyev is an artist-activist, researcher and educator in Vancouver, located on the unceded, traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, as well as the unceded traditional territories of nonhuman animals and plant life including bears, deer, raccoons, eagles, ravens, crows, hummingbirds, cedar, fir, salal and others. Her multispecies studio called Animal Lover explores more-than-human creativity to develop kinships with local lifeforms and ecologies. She has a PhD from Simon Fraser University, and is Associate Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art, Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She loves hiking with her canine companions Zorra and Heroe, paying attention to the liveliness of the animals, trees and plants, and Earth forces. Her book is Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding & Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity. Intellect Books, 2021. www.animallover.ca