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The Smellsonic Forest

Unsound’s Małgorzata Płysa on Foris, the immersive installation created by field recording artist, Chris Watson, and our very own Geza Schoen, that plunges participants into the beating heart of...

Unsound’s Małgorzata Płysa on Foris, the immersive installation created by field recording artist, Chris Watson, and our very own Geza Schoen, that plunges par- ticipants into the beating heart of a vanished wilderness.
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You sit in a white, technical environment, but you feel you are being taken deeper and deeper into a primitive forest. You are taken there by the scent created by Geza, green and resinous – the smell of the branches - but also slightly sweet, woody and rotting - the smell of the forest floor. At the same time you are surrounded by sounds recorded in seven forests round the world by Chris Watson, who is probably the most renowned field recording artist out there. You’ve got an Australian eucalyptus forest, the Masai Mara in Kenya, the Finnish taiga, and an ancient English greenwood, all delivered on a 16-channel sound system.