Initiating the “Sound & Word Network” prompted me to reconnect with composer Ana Gnjatovic. Ana was busy setting up a fascinating project at the time, a constructed archive of faked field recordings titled “My Garden Without Me”. She invited all network members to participate in a strand of the archive, “Tree bark recipes”: A collection of sound works showing befores and afters of insects and spiders inhabiting a single littleleaf linden (Tilia cordata). Each artist received a short text about the insect and were instructed to create something as a result of imagining the daily life and culture of the insect before or after the lockdown. Explore the results at the dedicated website: http://www.treebarkrecipes.com/

My contribution to this project is titled "Witness": a 2-minute-long, faked field recording for Euproserpinus Wiesti: BEFORE. Listen and read more about it here