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Thuringian Forest
Nele Moeller
Latitude: +50.69364010468693°
Longitude: +10.875465150034191°
Streaming from a bark beetle infested site in the Thuringian Forest.
Part of the 'The Forest Echoes Back' project. A bark beetle-infested site in the Thuringian Forest, which will soon be clear-cut in an attempt to stop the spread of the beetle. We will hear wind in the spruce trees, birds, insects (beetles eating through the bark of the trees?), maybe some animals in the brushwood, some far away street sounds and plane sounds.
Part of the 'The Forest Echoes Back' project. A bark beetle-infested site in the Thuringian Forest, which will soon be clear-cut in an attempt to stop the spread of the beetle. We will hear wind in the spruce trees, birds, insects (beetles eating through the bark of the trees?), maybe some animals in the brushwood, some far away street sounds and plane sounds.
The Thuringian Forest is an ancient grown forest, that exists since around 10.000 years. In the last two centuries, since the beginning of industrialisation, it has been transformed into a monoculture of fast and straight-growing spruce trees, which are now suffering in the face of climate collapse with rising temperatures and irregular precipitation. The resilience of the trees is thus very low, and a huge bark beetle infestation accelerates the dying of the trees even more. To prevent the spread of the bark beetle, the forest management answers with extensive clear-cuts to remove the “infected” trees.
project website: theforestechoesback.online
The microphone my ear
I record
I don't record
Waiting for attunement
My body a resonant object
Rising disconncetedness
Repetition
Translation
Silence
How to reach towards understanding?
The site is part of the ongoing research project "The Forest Echoes Back - Receiving and Transmitting Forest Conversations Through an Ecology of Listening". In the project, foresters, forestry scientists, activists, hunters, herbalists and other community members around the forest and the forest itself are active research partners and form an interrelated communication network with wide-ranging perspectives on the forest's ecology.
The research is situated at LUCA School of Arts Brussels and the University of Leuven and embedded in the research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories.
project website: theforestechoesback.online
The microphone my ear
I record
I don't record
Waiting for attunement
My body a resonant object
Rising disconncetedness
Repetition
Translation
Silence
How to reach towards understanding?
The site is part of the ongoing research project "The Forest Echoes Back - Receiving and Transmitting Forest Conversations Through an Ecology of Listening". In the project, foresters, forestry scientists, activists, hunters, herbalists and other community members around the forest and the forest itself are active research partners and form an interrelated communication network with wide-ranging perspectives on the forest's ecology.
The research is situated at LUCA School of Arts Brussels and the University of Leuven and embedded in the research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories.