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centers on Taiwan’s forests, exploring the ecological relationship between elevation and tree species through forest composition. By translating natural forest soundscapes into music, the project interprets the layered narratives of Taiwan’s landscapes and seeks to reconnect people with the forests that sustain everyday life.

Using a vinyl album as its primary medium, the project divides Taiwan’s forests into three elevation zones—high, mid, and low. Each layer represents a different chapter in the forest’s story: the birth of forest ecosystems, the historical development of forestry, and the integration of wood into daily culture.

Accordingly, the three albums take representative tree species and mountain regions as their narrative starting points:
◾️ High Elevation
Centered on the Taiwan spruce of Yushan, this album reflects on the beginning—the emergence of forests after the glacial period and the early formation of mountain ecosystems.
◾️ Mid Elevation
Focusing on Taiwania from Dongyanshan, it traces the footprints of forestry development during the Japanese colonial era and the transformation of forests through logging history.
◾️ Low Elevation
Represented by the Camphor tree of Shimen Mountain, this chapter tells how wood gradually leaves the forest and enters everyday life, shaping traditions of woodworking and material culture.

All sounds are recorded on site and reinterpreted through musical composition, forming sound narratives unique to each forest layer. The grooves of the vinyl record circle outward like tree rings, symbolizing the recording of time within wood. Meanwhile, the topographic puzzle invites viewers to assemble terrains and symbolic objects corresponding to each elevation while listening, helping them understand the ecological and historical layers of Taiwan’s forests.

The album and packaging design are developed around the concept of “a single piece of wood.” The final work includes vinyl records, a 3D topographic puzzle, a booklet, and mountain-shaped posters, forming an integrated narrative system.
Through the interwoven experience of sound, forest, and reading, invites audiences to rediscover Taiwan’s forests and locally sourced timber, and to hear once again the traces that land, time, and trees have quietly recorded.