Future Forest - ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart 2026

In Future Forest by sound artist Kirsten Reese, the "acoustic composition of a landscape" can be experienced in a live electronic realization by the SWR Experimentalstudio.

Kirsten Reese: Future Forest (UA)
A spatial composition for ensemble and electronics

Composition and sound design: Kirsten Reese
Scient. Accompaniment/ecoacoustics: Dr. Sandra Müller
Ensemble Recherche
Live-electronic realization: SWR Experimentalstudio

On this evening, the SWR Experimentalstudio transforms the large Theaterhaus hall into two special sound spaces. Biologist Sandra Müller speaks of the "acoustic composition of a landscape" when she uses the soundscapes of ecosystems to explore their biodiversity. Sound artist Kirsten Reese is also interested in what the forest means to us - also as a place of projection and imagination. Using hydro, contact and sensor microphones, the two researchers literally listened into the forest and its microorganisms - on tree trunks, in the soil, in watercourses. The artistic transformation can now be experienced in Future Forest.