When the Tree Listens (Atune) (2025)
Part I (dark space): 7min52s loop
Interactive video & sound installation, A shifting audiovisual environment where movement transforms forest imagery into point clouds and natural sounds into electromagnetic signals.
Part II (light space):
Photographs, sound installation, video 5m loop. Photographs of trees and antennas tower with their recorded electromagnetic signals, forming a quiet archive of unseen transmissions. And A first-person video documenting the act of listening to trees with the Soma Ether, revealing hidden signals in real time.
I am an artist based in London. I have been investigating the hidden relationships between humans and the natural world. In my recent work When the Tree Listens（2025), I explore the invisible transmissions between trees and their environment. Through a series of nature-related field recordings using the electromagnetic sensing tool Soma Ether, I discovered during the project that living trees, much like man-made antennas, can act as intermediaries capable of capturing clear electromagnetic signals – even radio transmissions. This work invites the audience to reconsider trees not as passive elements of nature, but as active participants in a wider ecological network of perception and communication.
@leyanlyu_121
Part I (dark space): 7min52s loop
Interactive video & sound installation, A shifting audiovisual environment where movement transforms forest imagery into point clouds and natural sounds into electromagnetic signals.
Part II (light space):
Photographs, sound installation, video 5m loop. Photographs of trees and antennas tower with their recorded electromagnetic signals, forming a quiet archive of unseen transmissions. And A first-person video documenting the act of listening to trees with the Soma Ether, revealing hidden signals in real time.
I am an artist based in London. I have been investigating the hidden relationships between humans and the natural world. In my recent work When the Tree Listens（2025), I explore the invisible transmissions between trees and their environment. Through a series of nature-related field recordings using the electromagnetic sensing tool Soma Ether, I discovered during the project that living trees, much like man-made antennas, can act as intermediaries capable of capturing clear electromagnetic signals – even radio transmissions. This work invites the audience to reconsider trees not as passive elements of nature, but as active participants in a wider ecological network of perception and communication.
@leyanlyu_121
When the Tree Listens (2025) Leyan Lyu
When the Tree Listens (2025) Leyan Lyu
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