FOREST TIME WATER

Documentation of Forest Time Water installation at Jack Straw Cultural Center, 2023. Guitar chords based on sonified climate data, describing increasing storm intensity in the North Cascades over the last 400 years. Numerical data is transcribed into musical frequencies to produce chords for the song cycle, the sequel to Forest Time Fire, 2019. Our time-traveling dendrologist sings to the trees, “To stay where you were born, rooted, we wander in the wake of our mistakes,” Tracks triggered by capacitive sensors and conductive objects embedded in the installation that consists of a 9 foot icosahedron hand carved and connected with cast bronze and aluminum hubs. Other elements include found objects from the Farallon Islands (gifted by permission), and the first showing of the Ghost Tree. DJ and VJ software transforms the installation into a midi keyboard. Maps were provided to audience members who where allowed to wander through the installation, remixing sound & video through touch.

Generative video sample from interactive installation, Forest Time Water, 2025. Clips triggered by touch resulting in a ever changing video. Guitar chords derived from sonified climate data. All music by Sasha Petrenko. Field recording sample from Bainbridge Records, The Forest and the Water, 1975.