Carrier Frequencies

Carrier Frequencies

Carrier Frequencies: Ha’ lem Tana’ lalun combines creative technology and arts-based practices to listen to Long Lamai Forest. Understanding sound as an analysis of biodiversity and artistic medium by which to hear and speak about change.

A collaboration between Invisible Flock, University of Technology Sarawak, Penan Community in Long Lamai and Orang Ulu Gallery.

Mediums

Sound

Sculpture

Sensors

Partners

University of Technology Sarawak

Penan community Long Lamai

Orang Ulu Gallery

British Council Human Nature Alternative Narratives Grant

Led by community forest experts, bio-acoustic monitors and climate sensors will be placed within Long Lamai forest to hear and transmit forest sounds. Sound will be gathered as a way to discuss and understand biodiversity and read alongside other climate data (heat/humidity/rainfall) to map and understand forest health over time. The forest listening devices act as a connector from the village to the primary forest, questioning the effects of increasingly missed and lost sounds on human and ecosystem health.
The project builds on ongoing work by Penan in Long Lamai to understand and adapt to climate change using both Indigenous knowledge systems and scientific methods (including Indigenous Climate Observatories – a participatory research project documenting climate indicators rooted in communal observation and Indigenous knowledge for community-driven climate adaptation). 
Two sensory sculptures cited within Long Lamai and at Orang Ulu Gallery will explore the importance of sound as a carrier and form of local, bioregional and global conservation knowledge.
Funded by British Council Human Nature Alternative Narratives Grant.