Parallel sonic worlds: Birchtrees & Tate Modern riverside

The bright green birch leaves looked beautiful as they shimmered in the wind on this sunny day. The sound is quiet but easy to hear. The movement also creates a vibration in the wood of the tree. This track uses a combination of normal and contact mics to crossfade from the outside atmosphere, where a distant guitarist entertains in front of the Tate Gallery, to the internal fluttering as picked up by a contact mic on the tree itself. When the wind drops the vibration in the wood disappears too.