TRRANSMIT Vol. II
This audio essay tunes into the environmental, historical and ideological echoes of the Thuringian Forest in the East of Germany. It listens with trees and bark beetles, with foresters and culture women, with myths and ideologies.
Spruce Speaks Before It Breaks is part of the PhD research project “The Forest Echoes Back — Receiving and Transmitting Forest Conversations Through an Ecology of Listening” and produced and published in the framework of TRANSMIT at LUCA School of Arts.
TRANSMIT is a platform for creative audio works that disclose investigations, collaborations and methodologies of artistic research. Comprising experimental narrative works in the form of radio essays, sonic stories or audio dispatches, each work is created by a LUCA researcher
in collaboration with radio makers, sound artists and writers. The series exemplifies artistic research as a distinct mode of knowledge production and one capable of engaging audiences beyond art and research domains.
A work by Nele Möller.
Research, text, field recording, interviews and editing: Nele Möller
Sound editing and design: Laszlo Umbreit
Narrator: Caroline Daish
Charlemagne: Christophe Piette
Carl von Carlowitz: Guy Livingston
Karl Marx: Will Holder
Jakob Grimm: Barry Fitzgerald
Berthold Brecht: Colm Mac Aoidh
Voices of Ilmenau: Heike Bartsch, Andi Geyer, Michael Möller, Ina Stabernack, Lüder Stabernack, Ute Wolf
Bach Etude 1010 Prelude played by Ukko Perttilä
Waldlament, sung by the chamber choir of the TU Ilmenau lead by Sophia
Müller, music written by Bergur Anderson, notation by Gunnar Gunsteinson, text by Nele Möller, recorded together with the HSF Studentradio Ilmenau
Äne Waldhackerschen, Poem recited by Ruth Böhme, with thanks to Günther Lacroix and the MiniPrint Verlag Ilmenau
Interviews with Rosi Leberer and Matthias Wetzel
Thanks to the City Archive of Ilmenau and the Archive of the Forestry County of Frauenwald, as well as to Zinner, Wendy Morris and LUCA School of Arts Brussels
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