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/

Giovanna Iorio's Sound Walks

Voice of trees" is a sound installation of poems in nature by Italian artist Giovanna Iorio.

Sound walk by Giovanna Iorio

Poems by Giovanna Iorio English Translation by Marco Sonzogni Voice Charlotte Chadwick-Jones Music Lucio Lazzaruolo

The installation includes  different locations: Central Park, East River Park, Shore Road Park,
 

List of poets:

International Voices
Love poems for a tree" in different languages" (with music by Lucio Lazzaruolo)

American Poets:

Michael Rothenberg

Larissa Shmailo

Wanda Phipps

Eliot Katz with music by Russell Branca

Pierre Joris 

Nicole Peyrafitte

Bonny Finberg

Rob Plath

James Reitter

Vincent Katz

Marcella Durand

Kristin Prevallet

Brendan Lorber

 Greg Fuchs
Christopher Funkhouser 

Lee Ann Brown

The project is a permanent installation on air and constantly updated. To fill Central Park of poet's voices and  be part of the project  contact 
giovannaiorio96@gmail.com or Michael Rothenberg

Love poems for a tree (English- Male voice)

"Incarceration of The Orange Bartender." Poem by Michael Rothenberg. Music by Jon Pazder.

Larissa Shmailo reads Johnny, I love you don't die

Windows on the world 
by Wanda Phipps


Windows on the word
 
her strong, old face

reflected through a glass door

and my sad brown eyes

follow her

multiple images blur my vision

 
what delights me

is the silent movie

of motions

choreography of gestures

complexity of interactions

the everyday dance

of ritual movement

invoking the gods to speak

through subtle

hand's slow motion

progress to the mouth

lips barely parted

to accept

the sacred cigarette

off handed flick of ashes

tiny turn of head

calculated composing

a pretty picture

the particular way of walking

when you know no one's watching

a comfortable stride in comfortable boots

muscles relax and

slightly shake tension away

 
what frightens me

is the constant motion

what frightens me

is the possibility of stillness

   edges of buildings

       surface

          of tables

              curbsides

hiding their molecular

            motion

the appearance of

contrast between

animate and inanimate

structures

                my sad eyes

            through a glass door
 


"Windows on the world" by Wanda Phipps is a poem exploring vision, states of matter, states of being, perception and reflection in many senses--seeing another in yourself and the other within you.  It will be included in the collection "Mind Honey" forthcoming from Autonomedia.

Thinking about emptiness
by Eliot Katz with music by Russell Branca.

“On the Rocks” & it was written (in my head) while walking along the Narrows here in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, then noted down when I got home.

Nicole Peyrafitte is a Pyrenean-born multidisciplinary artist. While a long time resident of New York, her work in painting, action painting, writing, film and video, music, and cooking draws upon her eclectic history and the experiences of shaping identity across two continents and four languages.

RIVER TOAST TO WEST END AVENUE
A poem by Bonny Finberg 
A photo of her favorite tree.

Cosa Cercava la Tua Mano
Poem by Giovanna Iorio

Recorded by Patrick Kukucka, Bagatelle Books, Asheville, NC

Three poems from Pulverized Flowerous Nowhere a series of poems written in the wake of the pandemic. Greg Fuchs lives in the Bronx,

I am a sound artist and I live in UK. 
I am the founder of the Poetry Sound Library, an 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. 

Among my projects there is "Voice of Trees, a sound walk to discover the voices of the most important poets from the Poetry Sound Library: monumental trees or parks receive a poet's voice and they become part of an inspiring sound installation. 

Website & Info: 
https://thevoiceoftrees.weebly.com/
https://poetrysoundlibrary.weebly.com/

Voices of Trees (New York)

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Giovanna Iorio - Sound Artist (UK)

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