Ecollage_01 forms part of a developing series of performances and audiovisual compositions called ‘Ecollages’. Each piece explores listening- and sounding-with the more-than-human world, through improvisatory listening and performance strategies of different kinds. The series uses combinations of field recordings, DIY and non-DIY instruments, electronics, visuals, and movement to think about our relationships with dynamic, living environments.

Ecollages questions – ‘how can we better think, see, hear, and feel ourselves as part of natural ecologies?’ – ‘how might we find ways of co-composing with human and more-than-human sounds where neither is prioritised, neither is erased, and both can be valued?’ – ‘what changes can be made in our listening to understand that we are always ‘sounding with’ the world around us’?

Ecollage_01 is written as a…