There is no emptiness, no silence, just life. Life is slow to do its work. It takes many generations for a forest to mature.

Yet, each thing that makes up the forest is a little bit different now than it was.

Let’s come back here together; in the evening, tomorrow, next season, next year, another decade, another century, forever…

Tuomas Toivonen

side a: 45 rpm

1. Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) chiseling a nest hole in a pine snag, contact microphones.
· Harmaankärki: 491-516-1-9 24
February 2023

2. Steel wires strung between the forest’s oldest trees, played with an electromagnetic exciter in various locations.
· Mustarinda: 105-893-10-1
· Kirintövaara: 614-416-32-37 
· Harmaankärki: 491-516-1-9
February 2023

3. Overtone flute, played under seafront pines on a raised beach by the open Baltic Sea. A radar tower can be heard rotating in the background.
· Isosaari: 91-416-1-0
21 March 2023 

side b: 33 rpm

1. Digital oscillators with contact microphone, humming, meltwater stream and cave, amid a mixed forest with spruce, birch, black alder and pine. Quiet rustlings of a curious squirrel barely audible over the ambience.
· Mustavuori: 91-417-18-2 18 april 2023

2. Parabolic reflector, microphone array, leaf canopy of the birch tree in the atrium of Kulttuurisauna.
Recording made in collaboration with Tommi Grönlund and Ilari Larjosto.
· Hakaniemenranta: 91-10-9909-100 18 september 2018

Music and text: Tuomas Toivonen

Photography: Ikko Alaska
Drawing: Aura Toivonen Tsuboi
Graphic design: Nene Tsuboi

This lp was published on the occasion of the Children’s Forest Pavilion,
Lithuania at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia  2023 

Organised by: Neringa Forest Architecture 
Implemented by: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
© 2023 Neringa Forest Architecture and the content authors

Mastering: Ilari Larjosto  
Cutting: Timmion
Vinyl press: Helsingin Puristamo  
Publisher: Kirvarpa