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With this final year project I hoped to create a proof of concept for a device that would allow you to open your phone and see the state of your environment on a local level.

Last month, I, alongside colleagues and friends from Queen Mary University of London, took a day out of our busy schedules to visit Hampshire to experience Dendrophone.

We visited Alice Holt Forest on Friday, 4th July 2025, as part of a field-trip funded by the ‘Sensing the Forest’ research project, an interdisciplinary exploration blending art and science to raise awareness of climate change and forest behaviour through immersive sound installations, led by Dr. Anna Xambó Sedó.

The inspiration for my final year project came from the Sensing the Forest project, which focuses on collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to studying the relationship between forests and climate change.

We are happy to announce the publication of this blog post on the Freesound blog about two ongoing datasets from DIY streamers at Alice Holt Forest, UK

We went for a 21st visit to the Alice Holt Forest on 26 June 2025. The main goal of this field trip was to show Pete's Dendrophone installation to Christopher Meigh-Andrews and maintenance checks.

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On 17 May I made my first trip to Alice Holt since February. Luigi has kindly been overseeing and undertaking battery changes for all our interventions in the meantime, but there were some modifications I wanted to make to the installation and setup ready for the summer.

On Wednesday 14th May 2025, we presented the Sensing the Forest project at students from Computer and Data Science and AI at UAL Creative Computing Institute in London.

After our group visit on 28 February 2025, I went for two more consecutive visits to the Alice Holt Forest on 14 March and 20 April. The main goal of these field trips was to collect the monthly recordings, replace the batteries, adjust the solar panels for the spring period, and shorten the distance between the RPi and the modem of Giorgio's streamer to make the streamer more sturdy.

In this tutorial, we introduce the design of a customised dendrometer sensor for our DIY tree talker.

Sensing the Forest at REVEIL 2025! We will join the network of live open microphones organised by contributing a stream from the Alice Holt Forest at daybreak on Saturday 3rd May (in the Western hemisphere) or Sunday 4th May (in the Eastern hemisphere). Tune in and be part of it!