Sounds For The Tree Hotel (2024)

On June 15th 2024, Sarah Kate Kramer, Nina Porzucki, and Laura Nova conducted "Sounds for the Tree Hotel” at the M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden, in the Lower East Side of NYC.

This was an interactive listening event in which we led deep listening exercises to connect participants with the sonic environment. We shared sound memories and facilitated a discussion about how to care for our acoustic space, as well as the trees that care for us in the garden. We asked participants to close their eyes and listen to the soundscape, giving them prompts to tune into specific sounds, such as those from the natural world, from human bodies, and from technology. Framing the world as an endless musical composition, we tuned our ears to the music all around us and composed a concert together.