The Tree Spirits| Touch sound work reflects on the life of a tree, speculating on its acoustic component, and explores the interaction of an individual part of a plant with the colony of organisms and the forest biotic community. The sound recordings give voice to the existence of a tree in its annual and life cycles which begin and end in silence. The silence anticipating the springtime resurgence of sap flow, and the silence of destruction caused by climate change, drought, and fires.

The artist zeros in on the touch; touch as an expression of genuine concern and awareness of the coexistence with plants, and a destructive touch of environmental devastation. The sounds of touching a tree trunk, branches rubbing against each other, the crushing of loose bark, the foliage, the rustling of trees in the wind, water drenching the roots – an acoustic journey through the physical existence of a tree. All the way to branch breaking, tree falling and a fire, a warning of the upcoming drought which is always a hard blow to a forest habitat........

For more information about composition browse to:
http://www.steklenik.si/en/brane-zorman-the-tree-spirits-touch/

Credits:
Artist: Brane Zorman
Consulting: Valentina Cvetkovič, Boris Semenič
Curated by: Irena Pivka
Vibration sensor design: Gregor Krpič
Fieldwork (Trzin): Morales d.o.o., Rok Rucigaj, Boštjan Divjak
Translation and editing: Melita Silič
Photo: Brane Zorman, Irena Pivka
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Katarina Radaljac
Public relations: Katarina Radaljac
Production: Cona, Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2021
Locations: Steklenik, Gallery for Sound, Bioacoustics and Art, MGLC, Švicarija, Ars programme
Partners: International Centre of Graphic Arts (Švicarija)
Thanks: Zavod Kersnikova 4

Brane Zorman: The Tree Spirits | Touch (Palma Ars Acustica 2022 winning composition)

Live Recording, Solo improvisation Electronic Guitar, (e-guitar, PD processing)

Sicher

guitar and electronics solo at semperdepot vienna, ca. 1995, Epiphone Sorrento, Shadow Midi Converter, Yamaha TX16W, Digitech Studio Quad

Semperdepot live

As certain spaces and times have become oversaturated due to urbanisation and the population explosion, certain (animal) species have began withdrawing to unpopulated landscapes and unoccupied times – into the night. We understand these withdrawals as a search for solutions that could lead to a ‘better quality of life’, an existence that would be better than the one offered to us by the oversaturated space-time.

Premiere sound art work curated and commissioned by CONA Institute for radioCona:wolFMoon FM exhibition, January 2017.

Mentored and coached by: Elena Biserna and Brane Zorman

More about radioCona:wolFMoon: https://goo.gl/UvJpy7
Produced by CONA, 2017
http://www.cona.si/

Brane Zorman: It’s in my Nature

Bostjan Perovšek - Bugs, A Walrus And A Door - Trento 16 (live Electronics)

Published on SoundCloud by artists permission

Bandcamp: https://bostjanperovsek.bandcamp.com/album/bugs-a-walrus-and-a-door-trento-16-live-electronics
Bostjan Perovšek: http://www.perovsek.si/

The composition based on the original song “Bugs, a walrus and a door start dancing” (30 minutes, 8 channel version, 1986), uses sound material created by bugs, a walrus and a door at the Vodnik Homestead in Ljubljana before it was oiled. Prof. Matija Gogala “equipped” me with an array of magnetic tapes with different tunes. These tapes consisted of approx. 80 hours of material, from which I took roughly 20 different length samples - ranging from a few seconds to half a minute. Once they were classified and listened to, the sounds of the walrus and the door were added. 

I classified this piece of music as a bioacoustic piece, although it could easily be considered electroacoustic. However, since I want to remain consistent to the original idea, I insist on this definition. The composition is not called bioacoustic due to the fashionable bio trends, but rather because it is founded on sound materials obtained from scientists who investigate animal sounds. This scientific discipline is called bioacoustics. The credits go to the included voluntary live performance in 1986 (by the members of the experimental music group SAETA) and involuntary performers (animals) – a result of being consistent in defining the project’s starting points and the music itself. The short stereo version of the composition, which can be found on the CD “Boštjan Perovšek – Touchings”, and on the vinyl LP “Bio, Industrial Acoustica (green)” was also included in the Ars Acoustica 1995-1996 Listening Proposals program within the frame of the European Broadcasting Union. 

The composition “Bugs, a walrus and door - Trento 16 (live)” is a special version based on the 30 minute original version. It can be realized as a 15 - 20 minutes long quadrophonic or stereo version, in which original samples are mixed in a new way and in new combinations. This version also includes a new soloist: a bug “Legnotus Limbosus”. First performance was during “1st International Symposium on Biotremology", Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy, July 2016. 

released August 10, 2016

Bostjan Perovšek - Bugs, A Walrus And A Door - Trento 16 (live Electronics)

Create your own story / Follow your feelings / Feel the sensations / just Be

Amaranthine, Petra Strahovnik

Audiopiece produced for Deutschlandfunkkultur in April 2020 during the Corona-crisis. The listeners are asked to step in front of a mirror - then a choir of voices, which people from all over the world contributed, describes the reflection, always starting with the sentence: "I see someone, who...". 
With contributions by: Daniel Bernhard Cremer, Stephan A. Shtereff, Tatsuki Hayashi, Andreas Stuhlmann, Kristin Westphal, Marleen Wolter, Hannah Schassnerius, Brane Zorman, Philipp Hartmann, Dani Brown, Friedrich Tietjen, Basak Senova, Bernadette Hengst, Ralf Homann, Ariel Dávila, Akira Takayama, Ilona Sauer, Claudia Bosse, Mariola Brillowska, Natalia Romik, Martina Angelotti. 
Narrator: Christiane Nothofer. 
A production by LIGNA. 
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Bojana Kunst: Rastline in umetniške institucije: domneva o skupnem
predavanje
Galerija Steklenik, Ljubljana, 5. september 2019, ob 19:00

Kako je mogoče misliti rastlinsko življenje v navezavi na institucionalno življenje? Zdi se namreč, da ti dve obliki bivanja ne bi mogli biti bolj različni, ena rastlinska, druga družbena, pa vendar imata več skupnega, kot se zdi na prvi pogled. V predavanju bi rada pokazala, kako se mnoga umetniška dela in to kako so narejena, navezujejo na življenje rastlin in s tem odprejo institucionalno imaginacijo za nove načine sobivanja. Prisotnost rastlinskega življenja lahko spremeni celoten institucionalni značaj umetniških del in vpliva na to, da naša prisotnost ob umetniških delih dobi nekaj skupnega tudi s svetom okrog njih. Predstavila bom umetniške eksperimente, raziskave, še posebej pa gledališka dela, ki ne ločujejo med različnimi oblikami življenja in tako spreminjajo tudi načine naše udeleženosti v njih.

povezava: 
http://www.steklenik.si/bojana-kunst-rastline-in-umetniske-institucije-domneva-o-skupnem/2

Brane Zorman: The Tree Spirits | Touch (Palma Ars Acustica 2022 winning composition)

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