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Collaboration between a Red Cedar and Harry Leshgold, recorded at Miller's Landing on Bowen Island. Performance gestures can be heard echoing through the hard trunk, building to a final climax.

Collaboration between a Vine Maple and Macy Burgess. A stereo recording with two microphones, the listener is placed amidst the branches. Thin wood transmits out-of-tree sound; birds, wind.

As the title suggests, this piece takes things slowly, using fades to move between locations at Wreck Beach. We begin on waves stirring kelp, moving to a tidal pool, then to the rustling of long grass in the beach's brackish soil.

Filmed in Snezhinsk, Russia, this piece observes a change in the environment as snow comes to blanket the local flora. Wind, perhaps as an agent of this change, is featured heavily, moving quietly over a pond, stirring among a spiderweb.

Recorded at Alice Lake in Squamish, Yumeng's piece is floral and fungal, focusing on mats of moss, mushrooms sprouting from logs, and ending with an undulating mass of leaves and detritus.

A movement between several distinct flora of Blue Mountain Park, and the insects gathered within. Pillbugs and ants dance within bark recesses, bees hover among windswept flowers.

The motions of the titular windy forest serve as a backdrop for several small, gentle displays. The slow drift of a mat of moss over a pond, ants marching between looming thorns, finally coming to rest on the stillness of a translucent-winged…

Collaboration between a young Red Cedar and Kaia Barth-Lessard, recorded at Cypress Creek. An improvised drum performance using two discarded branches, one of the more "traditionally musical" pieces. Changes in rhythm influenced by…

Collaboration between a Bigleaf Maple and Yumeng Cai. Recording from a low hanging branch, the performer's knocks and scratches mix with the jostling twigs at branch's end.

Collaboration between a Plum tree and Alisa Tarabrina. Contact microphone performance mixed with ambience from the Lower Lonsdale Community Garden. Scratching, plucking, resonating through the bark.

Recorded at Deer Lake Park, this piece focuses on the slower timescale of moss and decaying flora, speeding up time as leaves make ripples in a pond.

Collaboration between a Bigleaf Maple and Emma Shang. Intensity of performed "knocking" interplays with the resultant leaf shaking, as well as with an occasionally rising wind.

Collaboration between a Black Hawthorne and Cara Jacobson. Two contact microphones were used and the performance was composed in editing, creating an enveloping soundscape. Thorns played as kalimba, staccato percussion knocked on wood.

Whether warped in reflection by ripples across the lake, or moving over a flower, light is a major player in this piece. Recorded at sunset at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, light makes its movement evident across throughout the duration.

This composition begins with a primary focus on the smooth, languid motions of a crystal-clear stream, then finds itself in a still moment of contemplation with a katydid and an ant, washing her antennae. Recorded at Invergarry Park in Surrey.

A pensive study of the shoreline focusing first on small movements of sand and water, then moving out into the water amongst kelp and algae, with appearances made by small flies and crabs.

Beginning with the solitary march of an ant amongst a forest of grass, we follow the movement of water and sand to the rocky shore, small tableaus captured in beautiful compositions.

Focused on a very small scale, Alisa gives view into the worlds of kelp and sand at Wreck Beach. Prominently featured is the movement of small grains of sand and silt, running down a leaf or pulled to the sea in small rivulets.

Filmed at Wreck Beach starring the smallest of actors, flies swarming above a rock, a worm amongst glistening sea moss, and an ant on a leaf. Removed from the micro timescale, featured as well is the slow drift of sun across a spiderweb.

Collaboration between a Cascara tree and Sam Street. Performance gestures are restrained, unobtrusive, allowing for the wind and leaves to be heard.

Recorded at Miller's Landing, this features a more removed view of several locations, the small movements within, finally underscored by a sense of human interruption by an amount of detritus.

Collaboration between a young Bigleaf Maple and Linda Serrano, recorded at Green Timbers Urban Park. A clean recording, as if the listener is inside the trunk; one can only hear the gestures of the performer, like a small animal running over the…

Collaborative performances between students and trees using contact microphones and touch gestures. Created for MDIA300/VAST320 - Sound, Media, Ecology under professor Julie Andreyev, this project sought to expand the performer's awareness of a…