The concept of the “wood-wide web” is a term that’s been coined by scientists and biologists studying the underground systems of roots and fungi which ultimately create a family tree of connections across the planet. In short, all forests “hold hands” under the earth. Communicating through a subterranean internet, trees are able to feed those in need from miles away and grow stronger together
According to Suzanne Simard, who’s been studying the phenomenon for decades, while it may not be immediately visible, it creates palpable energy. “When I walk into a forest, I feel the spirit of the whole thing, everything working together in harmony,” she tells Smithsonian Magazine’s Richard Grant. “It doesn’t make evolutionary sense for trees to behave like resource-grabbing individualists,” Simard explains, noting that instead, a “healthy stable forest” benefits most when everyone thrives. “That’s why they’ve evolved to help their neighbors.” (https://alpynbeauty.com/blogs/alpyn-crush/woods-wide-web)

Etherotopy

Wood Wide Web

TITP5

Created on Roland TR8s, Roland TB3, and Roland SH01A. Mixed into Roland MX-1 and recorded on Zoom H6.

Epoch

This Love Can Never Die - Beck & Fini

Wrong Spell For Crimson Divinations My Dear Runny Angel Eye

method: recording semitone sequences, layering, morphing with pedals while recording,  layering, panning tiny critters, layering, etc. headphones recommended
narration: shallow waters. seaweed. the powers it forces. the powers that force it. since it is hard to hear through the water's surface,the written-out poem can be found below. seaweed has oh some many overlapping voices ..... like the multivocal waves themselves
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

what hides within me
remains well-hidden
until it awakes
stirs and elopes

from far without me
adaptive swaying
in flow with the current
tentacle tides

deceptively timid
quite unassuming
tumbler of shadows
living on light

protruding from vastness
ancient sea giants
sediment trances
supporting frail roots

seaweed sensibilities

Touch

Sonidos de Madrid Buscando Palabras is a sonic journey in the city.

Field recording taken in August 2023 at:
Reina Sofia Museum
Mercadillo de El Rastro
Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española
Teatro Flamenco
Mercado San Miguel
Mercado Antonio Martin

Sonidos De Madrid Buscando Palabras

PORCHZone

Mellow Hammer

Thanks Janelle! What a pleasure! :)

Lyrics, Vocals: @the-real-janelle from @juniperoband
Music, Mix & Mastering, Guitars (ES, JM), Bass (P), Drums (AD2) and Keys: @bonetender

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3r6bD5UUgfCc5tFVh0PqZe

========== Lyrics ==========

Out in the field, at night
I find myself twirling out of space
It’s like a dream, it seems...

There comes times where I don’t really care
About what goes on around 

All I hear is my boom box going hard
Out over here, nobody seems to notice us
At times I may have my own reasons
But never will I turn you my back 

We’re alright, we go our ways
We stumble down just to build up 
Taking hold of us again

Out in the field, we dance endlessly 
Out over here where you can see the city
We don’t dwell into tomorrow’s worries
We live for now and glorious memories 

We don’t mind, we don’t mind nothing 

We are at our rhythm 
We don’t care about your competition 
Nothing sane in soulless repetition 

We’re alright, we go our ways
We stumble down just to build up 
Taking hold of us again

©Janelle & Bonetender 2020 All Rights Reserved

Our Ways

Our Ways (ft. Janelle)

Poetry, Field recording and the Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/

Sonidos De Madrid Buscando Palabras

Ilaria Boffa

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