TREES

  I am beginning to settle back into trees as I finished the massive distraction of my PhD.  Its good in some ways as I can use it to test out a few things and now with the new school projects we will have to make it 'work' which is the bit I'm good at.  I enjoyed doing the festival of the mind project mainly as we just did activities and ideas thoughts and things emerged.  This sounds really simple but perhaps its a problem with academic projects in you have to think of all the reasons why you are going to do something before you do it and this closes down as well as opens up possibilities. The really interesting bit about trees is how the art meets the science and I think it is here where we need to build something.  It isn't about augmenting or opposing scientific methods its more about creating a mix where questions can be asked and new thoughts come to light.  I think this is already happening but needs nurturing.  The science can be quite dominat...

  Your blog post went into an empty space which was filled with a baby and lots of excitement.  But I wanted to carry on thinking about listening to trees and i like my tree listening device. I met a composer this weekend who works for this thing: Treephonia I listened to his score and I also thought about this project:  Tweeting trees At the weekend we went to a concert in which the music was played on the cello with a fern.