'How to be a forest' (2024) is for improviser, electronics, and field recordings. Part of a developing series of performances and audiovisual compositions called 'Ecollages', each of which which explores listening- and sounding-with the more-than-human world. 'How to be a forest' focuses on regenerative cycles of listening, playing, and looping alongside asynchronous collage of sound and visuals.

This score is an exploration in refracting forested landscapes. It invites the performer to generate textures in response to different layers of woodland environments - canopy, understory, rhizosphere - in dialogue with field recordings.

Short version premiered at Bonjour Claude's Scratch Night, Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester, September 2024. Medium version premiered at New Xpectations Audio Camp, Aberystwyth, Welsh Experimental Music Alliance, November 2024. Audiovisual version installed at Fox…