20 minutes of relaxing ambient music, created by sonifying changes in conductivity in plant leaves in the Rainforest Biome at the Eden Project, Cornwall.

Created for the Eden Sessions 2023, presented by Volvo UK.

Sounds of Nature • Eden Project

A cover of Devendra Barnhart's 'So Long Old Bean' - recorded in 2017, updated in 2023

So Long Old Bean - Devendra Banhart cover - recorded in 2017

'From The Understory' is an exploration of our relationship with plants and our role in the ecosystems with live in. Created as part of my artist residency at the Eden Project, this collection of songs brings together the human voice, electronic textures created with plants and field recordings to tell the story of civilisation at a tipping point.

Credits:

Composed by Alice Boyd 
Produced by Alice Boyd and Liam Evans 
Lead Vocals by Alice Boyd 
Vocals by Dazey, Emily Izen Row, Issa, XATIVA, zha 
Mixed by Liam Evans 
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New York 
Artwork by Amy Pezzin 
Typography by Josie Tucker 
Recorded at home in London

With thanks to Adam Laurence, AJIMAL, Anne Langford, Céline Holman, Cosmo Sheldrake, Darren Hoare, Gawain Hewitt, Hanna Tuulikki, James Lloyd Smith, Jason Singh, Kate Francis, Kyla Stroud, Laonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis, Lucy Siegle, Luisa Gerstein, Michelle Karlsson, Nicole Rochman, Petia Tzanova, Prof. Adam Beaumont, Sandrayati, Sarah Peake, Tamsin Solanum, Tamsyn Lewis, Tom Bevan, Will Dutta and the many other people who have provided support, mentoring and advice. A special thank you to Iain Boyd and Emma Howard Boyd.

My music was made possible thanks to support from Sound and Music’s New Voices programme, The Eden Project, PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music grant and Arts Council England’s DYCP programme. New Voices is supported by Arts Council England, Garfield Weston Foundation and PRS Foundation.

Symbiosis

Connection

Imbalance

Growth

Separation

'Oh These Days' is my second single. The song marks the spring equinox and the return of longer days in the Northern Hemisphere. Featuring lilting harmonies, a folk-inspired instrumental and field recordings collected across the UK, this song reminds us that sunny days are returning and bringing an abundance of life.

'Oh These Days' was originally created for a film by Ffern, a Somerset-based natural perfume maker.

Oh These Days

Peehs Gnitnuoc

Rerecorded!!!

Lyrics, music and singing written/done by Alice Boyd

Counting Sheep (original) - 2013

So Long Old Bean (Devendra Banhart cover)

Sounds from the 'Omelette', performed at VAULT Festival in 2020.

Music produced by Alice Boyd

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Mia and Mo have been to all the marches, turned off the heating and eaten the goldfish – but the climate’s still collapsing and they’re buckling under the pressure of saving the planet. 

Omelette is a new play by Anna Spearpoint (Theatre503), directed by Tash Hyman (JMK Award Finalist 2019) about climate anxiety, giving things up, and the pressure to do the right thing all the time.

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