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Arboretum --- 2020-10-28

"Arboretum" was created especially for Tree Time, an exhibition at the Museo Nazionale della Montagna in Torino, Italy (Oct. 29, 2019 - Feb. 23, 2020). All of the sounds are drawn from my archive of recordings of actual trees (living and dead), gathered in New Mexico between 1988 and 2004. Some were activated only by the wind, and some were played by me (bowed, plucked, etc.). Some are heard more or less in their natural state; a few have been heavily electronically processed and no longer sound like trees at all, while others combine both acoustic and electronic sounds. Two versions are included here: The shorter one uses sounds of multiple trees heard simultaneously, much like a forest. The longer one is more like a catalog, with different species presented one after another.