Joshua Bonnetta # The Pines

Joshua Bonnetta is a Canadian sound artist and filmmaker based in Munich, Germany. Working across installation, publication, and traditional film exhibition his artistic practice conceives of cinema as a sound forward medium historically situated in relation to both film history and a greater aggregate of sonic arts. He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in the Creative Arts.

The Pines documents the sound of a forest over the course of an entire year. Stereo recordings made from halfway up a pine tree in central New York State were collected using technology that allowed for continuous remote recording of 8760 hours.

The recordings were manually analysed using bioacoustics applications and composed into four one-hour chapters each representative of a season. The work is a representational collage of the year-long acoustic ecology of a forest and asks, how might a soundscape differ when a human listener exits the landscape? Produced by Joshua Bonnetta (Canada/D 2025) in collaboration with Silent Green, Berlin and Resonance.