EARTHFEST :: Domenico De Simone (LONG FORM) Mike Bullok | Jeesoo Hong | Sara Bouchard
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
147 Metropolitan Ave NYC (Reforesters Laboratory)
DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p
For this year’s Earth Day Reforesters is teaming up with New Ear:: SPATIAL to present a program of sound works that listen closely to and with the living world.
The festival brings together artists exploring various ways of interconnectivity, field recordings, open systems and eco-logical thinking. Across the program, voices emerge in dialogue with local ecologies, revealing both their expressive vulnerability and the fragility of the ecosystems they inhabit. Works delve into altered environments, from the shifting ecologies of a vast coastal lagoon to compositions shaped directly by climate-change data.
Listeners are invited into attentive encounters with place: an exploration of presence within the soundscape of the Cairngorms, grounded practices of field recording and aural mapping, and speculative reconstructions of the lost vocal worlds of extinct birds.
EarthFest offers a space to hear, reflect, and reimagine our relationship to the planet—through sound, memory, and the fragile act of listening.
About the Artists
Mike Bullock is a composer, improviser, and environmental sound recordist based in Western Massachusetts, USA. He creates electroacoustic sound work with field listening, contrabass, synthesis, and spatial audio systems. Bullock has presented projects at Harvestworks, ISSUE Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, the Park Avenue Armory, Fylkingen (Stockholm), Instants Chavirés (Paris), Café OTO (London), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Waterworks Museum, the Goethe-Institut (Boston), and EMPAC (Troy, NY). His recent projects include Ephemerospheres, a series investigating hidden, temporary acoustic ecologies.
Jeesoo Hong is an artist based in Cologne, Germany, who works with sound and built environments to reveal the often-overlooked narratives and emotional dimensions embedded within them. She looks at events or exhibitions as spaces where participation can arise through their specific spatial contexts and transformations.
Sara Bouchard is a multidisciplinary artist and composer who uses sound, installation and performance to interweave song and the landscape. She has exhibited and performed internationally, including at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT), The Center for Book Arts (NYC), The American Folk Art Museum (NYC), ERES Foundation (Munich, Germany), International Conference of Live Coding 2023 (Utrecht, Netherlands) and numerous festivals including Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival (VA). As part of an artist residency with the global science collective FLUXNET, Sara collaborated with ecologist Chris Gough, Ph. D., on a composition for choir and drums about carbon cycling, which was recently performed at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (OR). Born in Stockton, CA, Bouchard received her BA from Yale University in 2003 and was subsequently based in Brooklyn, NY, for 13 years. She relocated to Richmond, VA, to study with sound artist Stephen Vitiello, earning her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at VCUarts Department of Kinetic Imaging.
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