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Forest Song

by John P. Hastings

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Forest Song 56:17
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Forest Song theme (studio recording) 03:25
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This recording of Forest Song is an audio document of the live performances. Take this recording into the woods with you! Below is the information from the live performance. More information can be found at johnphastings.org/forestsong

Forest Song is a free music performance that takes place in the last, original site of pre-Columbian Mannahatta: Inwood Hill Park. Nestled within a valley, near ancient glacial potholes, caves, and cold springs, musicians are spread throughout the forest, performing a variety of sonic materials. Harmonies are reflected, words appear, and the melodies from revolutionary hymns are re-cycled, all conjuring a human and arboreal conversation. A Forest Song gathers everyone together over distance, a unitary statement that underscores the fundamental relationships that foster all our existences in this world. Over the course of an hour performance, the audience is free to wander the park, to hear the musicians at a distance, while also observing them close-by.

Myths and stories swirl around our forests, some of them fanciful and fantastic, others feed into age-old tropes of colonial settlement. They have been many things to humans: a source of fuel, shelter, fear. They are a place of mystery and repose. Forest Song takes these many iterations of human conception of the forest to fashion a poly-narrative: a Native American home, a European folk drama, a technocratic “shelterbelt”, and now a conserved piece of our future. Forests are a mirror for humans: the reflection of our wants and desires throughout our years of existence.

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released March 1, 2024

Recorded on October 13 + 15, 2023 by John P Hastings and Benjamin Mayock in Inwood Hill Park, New York, NY.

featuring
TILT Brass: Christopher McIntyre - trombone, James Rogers - trombone, Nicolee Kuester - horn, Blair Hamrick - horn, Rebecca Steinberg - trumpet, Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
with
Iván Barenboim - clarinet
Katie Porter - clarinet
Jessica Schmitz - flute
Eva Ding - flute
Casey Anderson - saxophone

The Team:
John P. Hastings - originator
Aaron Meicht - music director, trumpet
Carolina Gomez - costuming
Benjamin Mayock - design
Shannon Sindelar - producer

Forest Song theme performed by Todd Groves, Nicolee Kuester, and Chris McIntyre. Arranged and assembled by Aaron Meicht and John Hastings.

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