Ecotones: Soundscapes of Trees

生态交错带网络包括一个通过森林生态系统提高对环境问题的认识的活动方案，目的是建立长期的国际跨学科合作。来自英国和韩国的艺术家，研究人员和文化组织将带来来自音乐，生态，保护，社会科学，健康和福祉以及教育的见解和实践，以新的方式解决环境可持续增长和城市发展问题。两国不同的学科观点和做法将在森林与人类健康之间的关系、森林和自然空间的心理效益，特别是对大自然声音的深入倾听（Oliveros 2005，2010）以及传统音乐与自然之间的联系方面得到分享和结合。聆听自然界的声音将有助于发展生态文明，这对环境可持续发展和“深层生态城市主义”至关重要（Griffith 2014）。我们日益全球化的世界受到人为噪音的轰炸，这为寻找新的模式以实践为导向的研究创造了激励，以培养“注意力艺术”（货车Dooren，Kirksey，Münster 2016）。2019冠状病毒病疫情凸显了大自然对人们的重要性，在2020年最初的封锁期间，随着人们谈论他们所在地区的交通不那么忙碌，声音成为公共话语的一部分。听鸟鸣成为人们开始与大自然联系和重新联系的一种重要方式。引起人们对这些生物声音和声音的关注将扩大我们对树木、森林和森林对生活质量的贡献的理解。生态交错带网络将通过关注联合国可持续发展目标15“陆地上的生命”及其生态系统恢复十年（2021-2030年），应对城市发展和环境可持续增长的全球挑战。研讨会将包括一项试点研究，通过在韩国和英国的城市和农村环境中进行聆听和实地录音来量化音景。一个参与性的音景测绘工作将开发作为一种工具，鼓励社区参与树木的音景，通过在英国和韩国各地的网站生物多样性监测。此外，通过反复的生态区活动，将发布一个开放获取的声音库，其中包括来自每个生态区讲习班地点的录音，并上传到国际开放源图书馆“森林之声”，供年度木材节使用。这些录音将使那些对生物声学和自然音景领域感兴趣的人受益。应对生态和气候紧急情况的社会文化对策需要涉及自然、文化和教育之间的互动。教育与自然和文化的接触，特别是树木和音乐，能为这些交织在一起的危机提供什么？生态音网络将探索自然-文化关系如何为音乐教学带来环境关注。在音乐和科学教育的背景下，大自然的声音带来了对栖息地和地方的认识，培养了物种间的知识，作为维持环境和文化的途径。注重倾听将有助于评估树木和生态系统服务、气候变化、生物多样性价值和人类健康改善，并将其作为城市发展计划的主要考虑因素。将在城市发展和环境可持续增长的背景下，评估气候变化和虫害和病原体风险增加对树木提供的服务的影响及其环境、社会和文化效益。了解人类与树木和森林的一系列相互作用，将有助于我们评估可能的战略，以发展成功的森林-人类关系的宝贵见解。

The Ecotones network comprises a programme of activity that raises awareness of environmental issues through forest ecosystems with the aim of building long-term, international, transdisciplinary collaborations. Artists, researchers and cultural organisations from the UK and South Korea will bring insights and practice from music, ecology, conservation, social science, health and wellbeing, and education to address issues of environmentally sustainable growth and urban development in new ways. Different disciplinary perspectives and practices from both countries will be shared and combined regarding the relationship between forests and human health, the psychological benefits from forest and nature spaces, especially deep listening (Oliveros 2005, 2010) to sounds of nature, and the connections to be made between traditional music and nature. Listening to sounds in nature will help to develop ecoliteracy essential for environmentally sustainable growth and 'deep ecological urbanism' (Griffith 2014).Our increasingly globalized world bombarded by anthropogenic noise creates an incentive for finding new models for practice-led research to cultivate 'arts of attentiveness' (van Dooren, Kirksey, Münster 2016). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of nature to people, with sounds becoming part of the public discourse during the initial lockdown in 2020, as people talked about their areas being less busy with traffic. Hearing bird song became a key way in which people started to connect and reconnect with nature. Drawing attention to these biophonies and anthropophonies will expand our understanding of the ways trees, woods and forests contribute to quality of life. The Ecotones network will address the global challenges of urban development and environmentally sustainable growth by focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on Land, and its Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Workshops will include a pilot study to quantify soundscapes by involving listening walks and field recordings in both urban and rural environments in South Korea and the UK. A participatory soundscape mapping exercise will be developed as a tool for encouraging community participation in soundscapes of trees, through biodiversity monitoring at sites across the UK and South Korea. Furthermore, through the repeated Ecotones activities an open access soundbank will be released consisting of recordings from each of the Ecotones workshop locations, and uploaded to the international open source library, Sounds of the Forest, used for the annual Timber Festival. These recordings will benefit those interested in the fields of bioacoustics and natural soundscapes. A socio-cultural response to ecological and climate emergencies needs to involve interactions between nature, culture and education. What can educational engagements with nature and culture, specifically trees and music, offer these intertwined crises? The Ecotones network will explore ways in which nature-culture relations can bring an environmental focus to music pedagogy. In the context of both music and science education, nature sounds bring an awareness of habitats, and of place, cultivating interspecies knowledge as a route to sustaining environments and cultures. A focus on listening will help to evaluate trees and ecosystem services, climate change, biodiversity values and human health improvement as a major consideration in urban development plans. The impact of climate change and increased risk of pest and pathogens on the services provided by trees, and their environmental, social and cultural benefits will be evaluated in the context of urban development and environmentally sustainable growth. Understanding a range of interactions of humans with trees and forests, will help us to evaluate possible strategies to develop valuable insight into successful forest-human relationships.