Voice of Trees (Silver Birches, Tate Modern)

2 ECHOES

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Voice of trees is a project of poetry all around the world in different languages.

https://thevoiceoftrees.weebly.com/voice-of-trees-blog

Ancient and historical trees are geolocated and people can find them and listen to the Love poems dedicated to them. The gardens around Tate Modern were designed by the leading Swiss landscape architect Dieter Kienast (1945-1998) and where completed in time for Tate Modern’s opening in 2000. His landscape designs have a simple lyrical quality. By reducing his designs to a few essential elements and principles, Kienast plays with opposing factors such as the natural and the artificial, order and chaos.

Love Poems for a Tree by Giovanna Iorio

Translation by Marco Sonzogni

Voice Charlotte Chadwick-Jones

Music Lucio Lazzaruolo

Giovanna Iorio's Sound Walks

I am a sound artist and I live in UK. I am the founder of the Poetry Sound Library, and archive that preserve the voices of poets from past and present. I research ways to link poetry to the landscape. My sound walks are in UK and around the world. "Voice of Trees" is a sound walk to discover the voices of the most important poets from the Poetry Sound Library archive: monumental trees receive a poet's voice and they become part of an inspiring sound installation. Website & Info: https://thevoiceoftrees.weebly.com/ https://poetrysoundlibrary.weebly.com/