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Welcome to Woods in the Sound! This monthly audio series is a space held by Foresta Collective where we converse, listen to and exchange with humans and more-than-humans, in dedication to the emergence of an imaginary for a more ecological and connected being in the world.

This month, exploring the subject of HORIZONS, we are offering you excerpts from conversations and practice recorded during our online dojo session on Nov 17th. Our guests contributors in this dojo were Aljaž Škrlep and Vida Rucli from the Robida Collective. We also want to thank all the Dojo participants for joining that session and letting us share your voices: Cindy Rinne, Ginelle Hustrulid, Jakob Köchert, Paula Bushkevica, Silvia Sfligiotti, Teresa Frausin, and Yvonne Kaiser. And also thank you to those participants who were part of this session but preferred to stay anonymous.

Credits and Episode notes

Produced by: Sabina Enéa Téari, Egor Sviridenko

Opening and closing music: Pied butcherbird, Claire Edwardes, Hollis Taylor, Jon Rose

Opening and closing visuals and transitions: Alexander Sharapov

Episode artwork: Laura Savina

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Welcome to Woods in the Sound! This monthly audio series is a space held by Foresta Collective where we converse, listen to and exchange with humans and more-than-humans, in dedication to the emergence of an imaginary for a more ecological and connected being in the world.

In October we contemplate wild geese forming skeins to leave the northern lands, and meditate on the subject of farewells. Potentially Life and Death are more than friends. They are mutual processes of being. Where the spiritual and the material are not separated, there is also no antagonistic separation between forces of beginnings and endings.

Guests

To contribute to this months podcast, we invited a transdisciplinary artist, educator and gardener Shelley Etkin, for a conversation around processes of decay and decomposition in the natural world,...

…Steve Portugal, a comparative ecophysiologist, whose research deepens into sensory ecology and behaviour of birds, to introduce a western scientific view into the intricacies of the bird's practice of migration…

…and sandhill cranes, wild geese, ducks, woodpeckers, frogs and other voices of creatures that can be heard on an early morning on Madora Lake. The soundscape has been recorded by Tim Kahn from Portland.

Credits and Episode notes

Produced by: Sabina Enéa Téari, Egor Sviridenko

Opening and closing music: Pied butcherbird, Claire Edwardes, Hollis Taylor, Jon Rose

Opening and closing visuals and transitions: Alexander Sharapov

Episode artwork: Laura Savina

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Welcome to Woods in the Sound! This monthly audio series is a space held by Foresta Collective where we converse, listen to and exchange with humans and more-than-humans, in dedication to the emergence of an imaginary for a more ecological and connected being in the world.

In this episode we are learning from plants, and specifically from the RHIZOME.

Rhizome is a subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. It is also carrying multiple cultural and philosophical meanings, and we want to acknowledge the influence of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in our thinking about rhizomes. However we are not interested in a purely philosophical discourse, we are rather interesting in thinking how learning from rhizome can we find new ways for being together differently.

Rhizome offers us to think of poetics of interconnectedness, of a structure without a center, of a fundamental openness to new connections, respecting multiplicity, heterogeneity, and a process that is defined by the ability to form symbiotic connections. We relate to an incompleteness and complexities of the rhizome metaphor and of learning from and with plants in general.

Guests

For a conversation, we invited Philipp Kolmann, a designer working with food and plants (it was recorded on the market square of a small village, in Obervinschgau, Südtyrol).

In the practice part we explore rhizomatic connections within the context of Topoló, a village in north-eastern Italy, where a cultural association Robida is re-thinking art residentiality in marginal areas. The metaphor of a rhizome and learning from plants, inspired both the How and the What of our conversation, while pondering the ideas for looking at the village as an intelligent organism, a self-organizing body, a network, a structure without a center. People who took part in this session are: Jack Bardwell, Elena Braida, Philipp Kolmann, Kim Lang, Aljaž Škrlep, Tymonh and Jesse from studio Wild Architecture, Matteo and Natalia from Società Essoterica di Illusionismo Critico, and other humans associated with Robida.

Soundscape in this episode has been an offering from Tosca Terán. It’s an excerpt from Tosca’s work Chaos Fungorum. Chaos Fungorum is a journey into the Terrestrial solar system. Living Ganoderma lucidum mycelium hooked up with electrodes sending biodata through modules which translate this data in real-time and then process it through a Make Noise NoCoast, 3 Moog Mother32, Minitaur, DFAM and Subharmonicon. From the multiverse into the Oort cloud, through dark matter. Branching out, we breath it in. Recorded live during the Chaos fungorum installation for Nuit Blanche 2018 at the Baba Yaga Collective studio/gallery, Toronto Canada

Credits and Episode notes

Produced by: Sabina Enéa Téari, Egor Sviridenko

Opening and closing music: Pied butcherbird, Claire Edwardes, Hollis Taylor, Jon Rose

Opening and closing visuals and transitions: Alexander Sharapov

Episode artwork: Laura Savina

Mentioned references:

• Blackthorn

• Autumn Trail at Foresta Seasonal Academy

• Dojo Community of Practice

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Welcome to the WOODS IN THE SOUND. This monthly audio series is a space held by Foresta Collective where we converse, listen to and exchange with humans and more-than-humans, in dedication to the emergence of an imaginary for a more ecological and connected being in the world.

This episode’s theme is PALY. That quality of connectedness and flow, imagination and capacity for joy. In play we are free to speak, to make, to be in ways where the intuitive flow takes over.

We think of play as a quality that has a capacity to bust the cement and solemnity of established narratives, the dominant structures and histories we inhabit and inherit.

We invited Pied butcherbird, Claire Edwardes, Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose who make interspecies music together, a theatre practitioner at Fool Size Theatre Joanne Tremarco, and an improvisational musician Stephen Nachmanovitch, - to explore PLAY with us this month.

This month we invite you to explore the ideas and experiences of play and flow listening to this podcast, and joining us for a practice Dojo.

Guests of this Episode:

• Hollis Taylor: https://www.hollistaylor.com
• Pied Butcherbird
• Jon Rose: https://www.jonroseweb.com
• Joanne Tremarco: https://www.foolsizetheatre.com
• Stephen Nachmanovitch: https://freeplay.com

Mentioned references:

• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

A World of Many Worlds (by Marisol de la Cadena, Mario Blaser)*

From This World, Another (album by David Rothenberg & Stephen Nachmanovitch)*

Nightingales In Berlin (David Rothenberg)*

• Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (by Johan Huizinga)

***https://www.temenosacademy.org/kathleen-raine/

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