Listening to a tree...

I went over to Hyde Park last night to have a look at the graduate shows of the Royal College of Art. The different colleges presented their work together, in particular photography, painting and print making exhibited together in one show in a building adjacent to the Royal Albert Hall.

I found the installation ‘Tree Listening’ by Alex Metcalf the most interesting of the works exhibited. Metcalf recorded sound that a tree makes at different times a day. Apparently, the gurgling sounds vary according to the amount of water that is pumped through the tree and the hotter and the more sun exposure, the more water is pumped through the tree to the leaves and obviously, the more pronounced the sound that a tree makes. Listeners could hear that sound via earphones which dangled from the tree.

What a nice idea, listening to a tree…