Happy little Saturday, or lillordag everyone!
To celebrate I’ve put together a forest inspired playlist today starting with a reading of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s poignant essay, Returning the Gift, read by me for my students. I get a bit choked up, as I often due, when touched by great art. After that we have a bunch of foresty soundscapes and sound poems by students, another wonderful work by Hildegard Westerkamp, some moody tunes from recent me, based on sonified data from tree rings, plus one by Gil de la Tourette, about a forest-less continent, Antarctica, and I wrap it up with some tracks from my Lessons from the Forest series.
Stay tuned tomorrow for our opening reception, 5 – 7PM here in the Western Gallery where I’ll launch some fresh new tracks!
Happy Lillordag!
Returning the Gift by Robin Wall Kimmerer (ready by Sasha Petrenko)
Sound Poem, Suzy Moss, 2022
Black Capped Chickadee, Gabe Rubanowitz, 2022
Nightime Outsideq, Inspector J, 2023
In my head, Kelsi Nosal, 2023
Antarctica, Gill de la Tourette
Future Song, Sasha Petrenko, 2023
Beneath the Forest Floor, Hildegard Westerkamp, 1992
Forest Time: Fire, Sasha Petrenko, 2018
Lessons from the Forest, Part 3, Sasha Petrenko, 2016