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Members 'Play A Tree' Event

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Location

Hoyt Arboretum
4000 SW Fairview Blvd
Portland, 97221
United States
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Date & Time

Monday, 10/06/2025
5:30pm PDT - 6:30pm PDT
Add to Calendar 10/06/2025 05:30:00 PM 10/06/2025 06:30:00 PM America/Los_Angeles Members 'Play A Tree' Event This is a past event. Have you ever wondered if the trees are listening? And if they are, what they might say back to us? Join local artist Dann Disciglio at Hoyt Arboretum for a collaborative sound performance and deep listening experience tuned into the inner acoustic life of a tree. With the help of contact microphones and silent-disco headphones, you’ll step into the hidden soundscape of Hoyt Arboretum’s forest. But listening is only the beginning. As you touch, pluck, and move around a tree, you’ll hear your own presence ripple through its vibrations—like playing a living instrument. This gentle, playful exchange is both art and science, a reminder of the deep connections we share with the forest around us. This is a free event for Hoyt Arboretum Friends members. Become a member. Hoyt Arboretum

About This Event

This is a past event.

Have you ever wondered if the trees are listening? And if they are, what they might say back to us?

Join local artist Dann Disciglio at Hoyt Arboretum for a collaborative sound performance and deep listening experience tuned into the inner acoustic life of a tree. With the help of contact microphones and silent-disco headphones, you’ll step into the hidden soundscape of Hoyt Arboretum’s forest.

But listening is only the beginning. As you touch, pluck, and move around a tree, you’ll hear your own presence ripple through its vibrations—like playing a living instrument. This gentle, playful exchange is both art and science, a reminder of the deep connections we share with the forest around us.

This is a free event for Hoyt Arboretum Friends members. Become a member.

About This Event

This is a past event.

Have you ever wondered if the trees are listening? And if they are, what they might say back to us?

Join local artist Dann Disciglio at Hoyt Arboretum for a collaborative sound performance and deep listening experience tuned into the inner acoustic life of a tree. With the help of contact microphones and silent-disco headphones, you’ll step into the hidden soundscape of Hoyt Arboretum’s forest.

But listening is only the beginning. As you touch, pluck, and move around a tree, you’ll hear your own presence ripple through its vibrations—like playing a living instrument. This gentle, playful exchange is both art and science, a reminder of the deep connections we share with the forest around us.

This is a free event for Hoyt Arboretum Friends members. Become a member.

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Location

Hoyt Arboretum
4000 SW Fairview Blvd
Portland, 97221
United States
Get Directions

Date & Time

Monday, 10/06/2025
5:30pm PDT - 6:30pm PDT
Add to Calendar 10/06/2025 05:30:00 PM 10/06/2025 06:30:00 PM America/Los_Angeles Members 'Play A Tree' Event This is a past event. Have you ever wondered if the trees are listening? And if they are, what they might say back to us? Join local artist Dann Disciglio at Hoyt Arboretum for a collaborative sound performance and deep listening experience tuned into the inner acoustic life of a tree. With the help of contact microphones and silent-disco headphones, you’ll step into the hidden soundscape of Hoyt Arboretum’s forest. But listening is only the beginning. As you touch, pluck, and move around a tree, you’ll hear your own presence ripple through its vibrations—like playing a living instrument. This gentle, playful exchange is both art and science, a reminder of the deep connections we share with the forest around us. This is a free event for Hoyt Arboretum Friends members. Become a member. Hoyt Arboretum

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About the Artist

Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research explores how technology can be configured - as apparatus, interface, and/or prosthesis - to complicate how we engage with both biological and abiological systems. Disciglio works with and for non-human subjects such as flora, insects, bacteria, and artificial intelligence to develop multimedia  performances, immersive installations, sculptures, and screen-based works that make his audience attentive to non-human subjectivities, temporalities, and vital signs that are otherwise humanly inaccessible. By creating technological systems which augment and enhance perceptions of the non-human world, he challenges his audience to encounter the world differently – sensibly, acoustically, ontologically– according to the technē of the artwork itself.


Disciglio has exhibited, performed, and shared his research internationally, including at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Malta Society of Arts, Currents New Media Festival, and the United States Botanic Garden. He is also the co-director and curator of the Experimental Art Research (EAR) Forest, a 16-channel audio system located in a forest in Portland, Oregon.