The Pines
The Pines. Audio installation and publication. 2025
The Pines is a multi-channel audio installation and publication which documents the sound of a forest over the course of an entire year. Stereo recordings made from halfway up a pine tree in central New York State were collected using technology that allowed for continuous remote recording of 8760 hours. The recordings were manually analyzed using bioacoustics applications and composed into four-hour long chapters each representative of a season. The work is a representational collage of the yearlong acoustic ecology of a forest and asks, how might a soundscape differ when a human listener exits the landscape?
Published by Shelter Press & The Dim Coast
4xCD, with booklet. 240 minutes.
Words by Robert Macfarlane
Foreword by jake moore
Recorded continuously from May 2021 – April 2022 in Tioga County, New York.
Edited in Munich, Germany 2022–2024.
Film stills / research photographs / collage by Joshua Bonnetta.
Designed by Joe Gilmore.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Commissioned by The Dim Coast
The Dim Coast #23 / Shelter Press #157
Work made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada.
