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‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year
Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growing
This philosophical question was a catalyst for film-maker and artist Joshua Bonnetta, who has distilled a year of recordings from a single tree in upstate New York – that’s 8,760 hours – into a four-hour album, The Pines. He approached the intimidating editing task with the help of Holger Klinck, an expert in conservation bioacoustics at Cornell University, who showed him how to identify sounds graphically with spectral analysis software. There’ll also be an audiovisual portrait of the Bavarian forest at night, a film documenting the work of bioacoustic scientists on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and he is fascinated with the sounds of Munich, his new city.
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