Mediums
Spatial audio
Light
Partners and exhibitions
Leuser Conservation Forum Sumatra
LEAP Bournemouth University
SOCP Sumatra
Brighton Festival
WX
Audiences in Sleeping Tree in Brighton Dome during Brighton Festival 2023
Audiences in Sleeping Tree WX.
Every night, deep in the forests of North Sumatra, Siamang Gibbons sleep in special sleeping trees, choosing one of six trees for the family to return to each evening, the same six trees that they have used for generations.
The Sleeping Tree is a long form, durational, sound experience connecting audiences with the Sumatran rainforest. Designed for orchestral halls and large spaces, the work presents 5000+hours of audio across 36 channels of playback, collected during a three month-long mapping process of this rare ecosystem.
The installation highlights the unique biodiversity of this rainforest through its vast sound world, and follows the calls of one of the remaining families of Siamang, as they wake, call, roam and rest in the forest. The audio includes recordings of species such as the rare sumatran elephant, hornbills and orangutans. The recordings were used to help evidence biodiversity across the forest zones through bioacoustic analysis. The research has helped to lobby for the protection of secondary forest areas from deforestation in Aceh, Indonesia.
This work has been made alongside LEAP (Landscape, Ecology and Primatology) Bournemouth University and Leuser Conservation Forum rangers and primatologists in Sumatra working to protect the Leuser ecosystem from illegal logging and poaching.
‘Pohon Tidur’ berupaya untuk melacak perjalanan di dalam habitat kera siamang, melalui suara-suara yang direkam selama sebulan penuh untuk melihat pergerakan dan mendengarkan panggilan siamang di bagian hutan Sikundur, Pulau Sumatera.
Setiap malam, siamang tidur di pohon tidur tertentu yang mereka pilih berdasarkan ketinggian dan keamanannya, yang kemudian diwariskan ke keluarga dan generasi berikutnya. Bekerjasama dengan para kolega kami dari LEAP (Landscape, Ecology and Primatology), kami menggunakan data penelitian dan pola lokasi ‘pohon tidur’ dan ‘pohon panggilan’ yang dikumpulkan dari pengamatan sekelompok siamang sebagai peta untuk mempelajari bagian hutan ini selama satu bulan lebih.
Press
The reviews hub A powerful experience. It invites you to enter a transformative trance, to relax into your true self. It calls you home.