Ecotones: Soundscapes of Trees

ecotone网络包括一个活动方案，通过森林生态系统提高对环境问题的认识，目的是建立长期、国际、跨学科的合作。来自英国和韩国的艺术家、研究人员和文化组织将带来音乐、生态、保护、社会科学、健康和福利以及教育方面的见解和实践，以新的方式解决环境可持续增长和城市发展的问题。两国的不同学科观点和实践将在森林与人类健康之间的关系，森林和自然空间的心理益处，特别是对自然声音的深度聆听（Oliveros 2005,2010）以及传统音乐与自然之间的联系方面进行分享和结合。聆听大自然的声音将有助于培养对环境可持续增长和“深度生态城市化”至关重要的生态素养（Griffith 2014）。我们日益全球化的世界受到人为噪音的轰炸，这促使我们寻找以实践为主导的研究新模式，以培养“专注的艺术”（van Dooren, Kirksey, m<s:1> nster, 2016）。2019冠状病毒病大流行凸显了自然对人的重要性，在2020年最初的封锁期间，声音成为公共话语的一部分，因为人们谈论他们所在地区的交通不那么繁忙。听鸟的歌声成为人们开始与自然联系和重新联系的关键方式。引起对这些生物和人类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。生态区网络将重点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），应对城市发展和环境可持续增长方面的全球挑战。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听力散步和现场录音来量化音景。通过对英国和韩国各地的生物多样性进行监测，将开发参与式声景测绘练习，作为鼓励社区参与树木声景的工具。此外，通过ecotone的多次活动，将发布一个开放的声音库，其中包括每个ecotone工作坊地点的录音，并上传至国际开放源代码库“森林之声”，用于每年的木材节。这些录音将使那些对生物声学和自然声景领域感兴趣的人受益。对生态和气候紧急情况的社会文化反应需要涉及自然、文化和教育之间的相互作用。与自然和文化，特别是树木和音乐相结合的教育能为这些交织在一起的危机提供什么？ecotone网络将探索自然-文化关系如何将环境焦点引入音乐教学。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点的认识，培养了物种间的知识，作为维持环境和文化的途径。注重倾听将有助于将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作为城市发展计划的主要考虑因素进行评估。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策略，从而对成功的森林-人类关系产生有价值的见解。

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.