Recordings taken in Tijuca Forest, 8am, 8 October 2011. 

Floresta da Tijuca 8 October

Recordings of Haldon Forest, Devon on 15 October 2011. See www.hello-tree.com for more information about A Conversation Between Trees. 

Haldon Forest 15 October

The piano music here was used as the soundtrack for Before Light, a film of a performance created by playing binary code on domestic lights during Active Ingredient's residency in Rio, Brazil. The binary code represented co2 readings gathered on a walk to the farm we stayed on during the first week. I used the same binary code, of 6 parts (for each light in the house) to work out 6 piano parts. 

The piano was recorded at Gargarullo, the theatre space we stayed in on our way back to Rio. Everyone was working on different things, there were people singing in the other room and the door kept opening and closing. Late in the evening, after a beer, I was trying to use the visual cues that Silvia, the artist who developed the Before Light light performance had written out, as piano music. There were six to record and it took quite a number of retries before I got it right. The timing is rough and the piano old, but it comes together, especially with the film. I've left the talk, retries, swearing and other noises in in the lead up to the piano music, as it makes for a more balanced piece of music/audio. The piano music alone, as audio does not convey so much. 

Rebecca 