sub/Wald
2025 - present
field recording · ecological research · immersive media
Fieldwork in Teutoburger Wald, November 2025
sub/Wald is an artistic research project into how field recording and immersive media can become tools for understanding forest ecologies.
i. field
Moss Listening Walk, INSECT Summer Camp 2025, with (from left to right) Lino Gualinga, Maria Rosario Tucci, Katty Gualinga, Sofia Fernandez, Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes
The first phase of the project explored recording practices as a form of situated fieldworking. It began at the INSECT Summer Camp 2025 in Hvalsø, Denmark, in exchange with artists, designers and scientists working on more-than-human and ecological questions. It continued with a sound foraging walk in London (October 2025), listening to urban mosses with artist and moss researcher Lucy Jane Macallister Dukes, as well as further research in spruce forests in Berlin. The phase culminated in fieldwork in the Teutoburger Wald, recording the forest floor, mosses and trees with contact and binaural microphones across two contrasting forest types: a young Norway spruce plantation and a mature European beech forest.
Photo documentation from Teutoburger Wald, November 2025
ii. studio
Experimentation in Spatial Audio and Arts Lab, KreativInstitut.OWL
The second phase was conducted in the Spatial Audio and Arts Lab at the KreativInstitut.OWL, understood as an 'expanded field' — a site where forest ecologies can be recreated and rediscovered through mixing, sampling and spatialisation. This phase produced a series of stereo and ambisonic mixes of individual field recordings, and from these, a spatial composition.
iii. installation
Documentation of installation at Detmold Design Week, 2026 (Photo: Melina Simonian)
In the third phase, the spatial composition became the basis for an adaptive spatial media installation, developed with Alexander Mann (generative visuals) and Lars Engeln (light design and software interfacing). Generative visuals drawn from photographic material made during the fieldwork in Teutoburger Wald, together with a responsive light design, were integrated with the spatial audio into an environment that reacts to the presence and activity of visitors in the space.
Documentation
Presentations
Reduced Signals group exhibition, Detmold Design Week, 02.-09.05.2026
International Conference on Auditory Display, 28.-31.07.2026
ALI(E/A)NSI group exhibition, Novilla Berlin, 28.08.-13.09.2026