Branching Songs

Branching Songs is a multispecies art project relating with trees and forests around Vancouver and coastal regions. The goal is to foster understanding and care for vital ecosystems supporting the well-being of human and more-than-human life.

Listening to the trees, for the sake of the forests

About

live events

art installations, performances

Recital With a Forest

Clear Cut Chorus

Rehearsal for a Forest

ephemeral stream

ways of knowing

Indigenous ways of knowing with land-based practices are an integral part of Branching Songs.

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Ribbon Tree

Tree Feelers

Medicine Wheel Blanket

Soundscapes about forests around Vancouver, including the lands being cleared for the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project.

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soundscapes

workshops

Branching Songs workshops connect people with trees and forests.

Listening walk + sound art with a Forest

Tree Awareness

Hear(t)

Performing with Trees

These experiments taught us how to listen to trees.

Recording Tree Electromagnetism

Tiny Planets

Improvising with Trees Using Contact Mics

Listening for electromagnetic fields

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experiments

“...Many of us feel the destruction of the natural world acutely. ‘Branching Songs’ captures that, aiming to restore beauty and galvanize.”

Review of Branching Songs by Dorothy Woodend in The Tyee