Common Oak
1 sound
Current age: Semi Mature
Size at maturity: 30m
Species native to: Europe (including the British Isles)
Tree identification number: 0HCV
Composer name
Iason Maroulis
About the composer:
Iason Maroulis is a young Greek composer and trumpet player based in London. He is interested in the envelope of sound and in its manipulation through both acoustic and electronic means. He is trying to explore the ways that sound is produced in acoustic instruments and ways in which it can be organized in order to create sonorities and gestures, where an ensemble functions as one sound, whose members act as the different parts of this sound’s envelope.
Iason is currently an undergraduate Composition student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Rubens Askenar
About the tree:
The English oak is the dominant big tree across much of Britain, supporting a greater number of leaf eating insects than any other; a hugely important tree for biodiversity. The wood is hard, tough, and durable even under water and so highly valued for furniture and in construction.
About the composition:
This piece is influenced by the shape of the tree. As happens with the other Oak that can be found on this part of the park, the music is a representation of how its bark opens up, to multiple branches and a rich foliage. In this case though the sound is slightly distorted hinting in the trees interaction with the fence of the playground next to it.
