Future Forest

Kirsten Reese: Future Forest

Spatial composition in 12 scenes for ensemble, electronics and text projection^WP (2025)

Composition and sound design: Kirsten Reese

Scientific support/ecoacoustics: Dr Sandra Müller, University of Freiburg

I Noise
II Uniwald Mathislewald
III Solling Monitoring Recorder
IV A Morning in March
V Mathislewald Monitoring
VI Allmende–Moos–Kaiserstuhl
VII Forest Structure
VIII Night
IX Schorfheide–ADI and SMI
X Mähderklinge
XI Soils, Trees
XII Schorfheide–Questions

Ensemble Recherche

Sound engineering: SWR Experimentalstudio

Michael Acker, sound engineer
Elena Ralli, sound engineer

On this evening, the SWR Experimentalstudio will transform the large Theaterhaus hall into two special sound spaces.

Biologist Sandra Müller speaks of the »acoustic composition of a landscape« when she explores the biodiversity of ecosystems through their soundscapes. Sound artist Kirsten Reese is also interested in what the forest means to us—as a place of projection and imagination. Using hydro, contact, and sensor microphones, the two researchers literally listened to the forest and its microorganisms—on tree trunks, in the earth, in watercourses. The artistic transformation can now be experienced in Future Forest.