TREELINE is a creative musical project connecting communities to their environments, trees and forests. We are working with communities throughout Europe following old growth forests and their remnants in 10 countries from Romania to the UK, using music, data collection, field recordings and concert performances to engender greater respect for trees and biodiversity, and increase understanding of why these things are so important.
Devised by composer Graham Fitkin, Treeline comprises a 2500 mile journey through 10 European countries, with concerts and workshops at 20 locations of a new musical work using recordings from specific trees. Communities from Romania back to the UK choose a local tree to ‘profile’. These communities work with Graham to collect data, including measurements of the tree, its canopy shape, branch structure, images of the tree, ambient audio and also audio recordings from inside each tree. All this information goes in to a new flexible one hour musical work which emphasises different trees at each performance.
And Graham will be cycling the entire route.
About Graham
Who is Graham Fitkin? What does he do and how is he going to work on Treeline…
The European Nature Trust
Find out more about one of Treeline’s major partners. Their extraordinary mission is to ensure that Europe’s wild landscapes & ecosystems are preserved for future generations…
