Outputs
Academic, artistic and non-specialist outputs of the AHRC Sensing the Forest Project
Abstracts
- Marino, Luigi and Xambó, Anna (2024). Developing DIY Solar-Powered, Off-Grid Audio Streamers for Forest Soundscapes: Progress and Challenges, Proceedings of CHIME 2024.
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Presentations
- Xambó, Anna and Marino, Luigi (October 23, 2024). Invited Talk: ”Sensing the Forest: Lessons Learned from our Artistic-Acoustic Intervention at the Alice Holt Forest”. Aix-Marseille University - Master in Acoustics and Musicology. Online.
- Xambó, Anna (November 14, 2023). Keynote: ”From NIME to NISE: Rethinking the design and evaluation of musical interfaces”. Audio Developer Conference 2023 (ADC23). London, UK.
- Xambó, Anna (October 25, 2023). Invited Talk: ”In the search for epistemological cross-pollination between forest research, HCI and SMC”. CHIME network. Online.
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Artistic
- Xambó, Anna (accepted): Sensing the Alice Holt Forest, live performance. International Conference on Live Coding, May 28-31, 2025. Barcelona, Spain.
- Batchelor, Peter: Dendrophone. Sound installation. August 2024-July 2025, Alice Holt Forest, GU10 4LS, Farnham, UK.
- Your Sonic Forest: Hear Nature Speak through Sound Installations in Alice Holt Forest - Art Event - Online. August 2024-July 2025, Online.
- Your Sonic Forest: Hear Nature Speak through Sound Installations in Alice Holt Forest - Art Event. 20 June, 11am-3pm, 2024. Alice Holt Forest, GU10 4LS, Farnham, UK.
- Within and Between | Rosa Sungjoo Park
- Dendrophone | Peter Batchelor
- Streamers | Luigi Marino
- Remembering the Mighty Oak | Kate Anderson
- Tree Museum | Ed Chivers
- Tread(LIGHTLY) | Gabrielle Cerberville
- The Walking Tree | Bardia Hafizi
- Resonant Grove | Austin Blanton
- A tree listens to itself | Miles Scharff
- Sound Gardening at Alice Holt | Jordan Juras
- Leaves Echo | Qianyi Rose Sun
- In touch | Beccy Abraham
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Hardware
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Manjunatha, Krishna Nama; Elmokadem, Mahmoud B.; Arockiadoss, Subhash; Xenakis, George; and Xambó Anna (2024-): DIY tree talker. Under development.
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Bell, Mike and James, Catrina (2024): Customised Data Logger.
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Marino, Luigi (2023-): Streamers’ hardware. Under development.
- Tutorial 1: Phase 1 - Setting up the streamers.
- Tutorial 2: Forthcoming.
- Tutorial 3: Forthcoming.
- 3D models. Forthcoming.
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Software
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Web app customised DIY tree talker (2024-). Under development.
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Xambó, Anna; Roma, Gerard; Batchelor, Peter; Bell, Mike; Marino, Luigi; et al. (2024-): Max web client customised data logger. Under development.
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Xambó, Anna; Roma, Gerard; Batchelor, Peter; Bell, Mike; Marino, Luigi; et al. (2024-): Pd web client customised data logger. Under development.
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Xambó, Anna; Roma, Gerard and Bell, Mike (2024-): Web server (Express.js). Under development.
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Marino, Luigi (2023-): Streamers’ software (Raspberry Pi platform).
- Tutorial 1: Phase 1 - Setting up the streamers.
- Tutorial 2: Forthcoming.
- Tutorial 3: Forthcoming.
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Datasets
- 5-minute audio recordings streamer I (natural soundscape). Ongoing.
- 5-minute audio recordings streamer II (sound installation). Ongoing.
- 1-minute JSON files from customised data logger. Ongoing.
- 10-minute JSON files from DIY tree talker. Forthcoming.
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Live streams (from streamers)
🔥 Note: This is a solar-powered system in the woods, which means it sometimes goes offline. We recommend Chrome or Firefox for an optimal experience.
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Videos
- George Xenakis - Sensing the Forest Hands-on Demonstration: How a Tree Talker Works (28:37), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- George Xenakis - Sensing the Forest Presentation: Introduction to the Northern Research Station (25:27), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Summer School Artists - Sensing the Forest Summer School Presentation: Initial Prototypes (27:33), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Johana Knowles - Sensing the Forest Summer School Presentation: Placemaking and Audience (9:53), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Hazel Stone - Sensing the Forest Summer School Presentation: Approaches to Creative Responses in the Landscape (23:28), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Peter Batchelor - Sensing the Forest Summer School Presentation: Public Sound Installation Art (41:54), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Mike Bell - Sensing the Forest Summer School Presentation: Alice Holt Long-Term Carbon Dioxide Flux Monitoring Site (19:14), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Nick Wardlaw - Sensing the Forest Summer School Presentation: An Introduction to Alice Holt Forest Centre (15:19), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Matt Wilkinson - Sensing the Forest Presentation: Introduction to the Alice Holt Research Forest (23:13), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Liz O’Brien and Alice Eldridge - Sensing the Forest Seminar #3: Q&A moderated by Peter Batchelor (20:36), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Alice Eldridge - Sensing the Forest Seminar #3: Tuning in to Soundscape Dynamical Complexity (35:06), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Liz O’Brien - Sensing the Forest Seminar #3: Sounds in and of the Forest: Can We Connect People to Nature Through Sound? (29:05), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Saloni Shah and Daniel Jones - Sensing the Forest Seminar #2: Q&A moderated by Peter Batchelor (14:49), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Daniel Jones (Jones/Bulley) - Sensing the Forest Seminar #2: Living Symphonies (36:08), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Saloni Shah - Sensing the Forest Seminar #2: How Information Design Can Save Forest Ecosystems (30:33), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Ruth Jarman and Peter Sinclair - Sensing the Forest Seminar #1: Q&A moderated by Peter Batchelor (24:30), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Peter Sinclair - Sensing the Forest Seminar #1: Locustream Open Microphones - Acoustic commons : a shared resource to renew listening (27:55), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
- Ruth Jarman (Semiconductor) - Sensing the Forest Seminar #1: Worlds in Flux: Semiconductor (29:05), The Sensing the Forest YouTube Channel.
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Interviews
- Stone, Hazel (26 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Beccy Abraham. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (26 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Rosa Sungjoo Park. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (24 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Jordan Juras. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (20 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Kate Anderson. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (17 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Miles Scharff. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (15 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Austin Blanton. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (13 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Gabrielle Cerberville. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (10 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Qianyi Rose Sun. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (8 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Ed Chivers. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Stone, Hazel (6 May 2024) Meet the Artists - Bardia Hafizi. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Xambó, Anna and Marino, Luigi (27 March 2024) An Interview with Jones/Bulley. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Xambó, Anna and Marino, Luigi (21 February 2024) An Interview with Liz O’Brien. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Xambó, Anna and Marino, Luigi (5 February 2024) An Interview with Alice Eldridge. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Xambó, Anna and Marino, Luigi (14 January 2024) An Interview with Peter Sinclair. The Sensing the Forest blog.
- Xambó, Anna and Marino, Luigi (5 December 2023) An Interview with Saloni Shah. The Sensing the Forest blog.
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Photo albums
- Zheng, Shuoyang (2024) Sensing the Forest Summer School - Day 1, The Sensing the Forest Flickr account.
- Zheng, Shuoyang (2024) Sensing the Forest Summer School - Day 2, The Sensing the Forest Flickr account.
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