Part I (Intro)

Lovisa Ehrenkrona, Stefan Östersjö, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Norrbotten NEO

Part II

Lovisa Ehrenkrona, Stefan Östersjö, Norrbotten NEO, Nguyen Thanh Thuy

Part III

Lovisa Ehrenkrona, Stefan Östersjö, Norrbotten NEO

Part IV

Lovisa Ehrenkrona, Nikolay Shugaev, Robert Ek

Part V

Stefan Östersjö, Norrbotten NEO

Part VI

Stefan Östersjö, Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Norrbotten NEO

Sounds by Water and Trees was created through a participative approach to the sonic environment, where performers produce sounds in dialogue with a specific site: an approach to environ- mental sound art that moves beyond preservation, as a model of ecology, towards interaction and co-operation with the environment through participation rather than representation. ’Natural’ and man-made sounds become enmeshed in and through a network that in many ways instantiates itself. There’s no inherent hierarchy of importance in the flow of sounds, and in the systemic flow different sound constellations emerge as occasional forefronts of the overall soundscape. A sort of recursive dependency evolves in the way sounds of different origins grow out of, and in relation to, each other. Sounds by water and trees: the sound of water rising in a tree at dawn; the wind sonified by an aeolian guitar; the cyclic pounding from the sawmill; the waves hitting the shore as a power boat passes by. But Sounds by Water and Trees is essentially an attempt to stage a set of interactions between human and environment, wherein at times the intentionality of the sound produced by the wind and the waves has a similar agency to that of performers and composers, all engaging in the shaping of sound.