Aspen
1 sound
Current age: Mature
Size at maturity: 15m
Species native to: Europe, North Africa and Asia
Tree identification number: 0HX7
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 leaves of these trees pivot on their stalks swinging and shaking in a gentle breeze to give a distinctive rustling sound. Their Latin name translates as 'trembling poplar'.
About the composition:
Whilst working on the music for these trees, I was drawn to the varying densities within the canopies. I aimed to create different versions focusing on the individual densities of the trees, and for the music to work in a collage like way. Mirroring the overlapping canopies and the close proximity of many of the London Planes.
