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An Interview with Peter Batchelor
by Aleksander Skutnik - Comments
For my final year BSc project, I am conducting a series of interviews with artists who work with solar-powered solutions. Peter Batchelor is the creator of Dendrophone, a sound installation currently exhibited at the Alice Holt Forest that transforms environmental data from the forest into an auditory experience.
14th Field Trip to Alice Holt Forest
by Peter Batchelor - Comments
We went for 14th visit to the Alice Holt Forest on 17th January 2025. The main goal of this field trip was to replace batteries and update software for both the sound installation and the streamer in the Willows Green Trail.
13th Field Trip to Alice Holt Forest
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We went for a 13th visit to the Alice Holt Forest on 6 December 2024. The main goal of this field trip was to show the terrain to Alex while doing maintenance tasks for the streamers, introduce Alex to Pete for the interview about Pete's work, and brainstorm the design and content for a promotional leaflet.
12th Field Trip to Alice Holt Forest
by Anna Xambó - Comments
On 17 September 2024, we went on a field trip to change batteries and do a general maintenance check of Streamers I and II, and make a few more recordings of the two sites (natural soundscape and modified soundscape).
Presentation at CHIME 2024 - December 2, 2024
by Anna Xambó - Comments
On 2 December 2024, Luigi Marino presented the work on the streamers at the CHIME Annual One-day Music and HCI Conference 2024, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
3rd Advisory Board Meeting
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We had our third Advisory Board meeting where we presented the development and status of the project to the Advisory Board and sought their valuable feedback.
Hackathon at Northern Research Station Edinburgh - Day 2
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We met for the second day of our 2-day Sensing the Forest hackathon at the Forest Research Northern Research Station in Edinburgh to develop a new prototype, a DIY tree talker.
Hackathon at Northern Research Station Edinburgh - Day 1
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We met for the first day of our 2-day Sensing the Forest hackathon at the Forest Research Northern Research Station in Edinburgh to develop a new prototype, a DIY tree talker.
Welcome three third-year undergraduate students
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We are happy to welcome three third-year undergraduate students from Queen Mary University of London who are joining the Sensing the Forest project and will work on related final projects.
Presentation at Aix-Marseille University - October 23, 2024
by Anna Xambó - Comments
Luigi Marino and I presented the Sensing the Forest project at the Master in Acoustics and Musicology, Aix-Marseille University.
11th Field Trip to Alice Holt Forest
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We went for an eleventh visit to the Alice Holt Forest. The main goal of this field trip was to debug the EcoFLow solar panel, do a general maintenance check of Streamers I and II, and make a few more recordings of the two sites (natural soundscape and modified soundscape).
Tenth Field Trip to Alice Holt Forest
by Anna Xambó - Comments
We went for a tenth visit to the Alice Holt Forest, divided into two parts. In the first part, Pete installed two more solar panels to achieve an installation fully independent using four solar panels. In the second part, I went back again to check that the two streamers and Pete's installation were working as expected focusing on getting to know more about the EcoFlow unit.