Cheryl Beer is a hearing-impaired, environmental sound artist, known as The Conduit Composer. Currently based in the 4 remaining pockets of rainforest across Wales, her work is innovative, collating the inner biorhythms of trees and converting them to digital & visual sound. From these, she composes music - literally led by the trees themselves! Her work both raises awareness of nature in distress & offers an emotional connection to place.
In the run up to COP26, Cheryl was commissioned to make a film for Unlimited Connects North. Entitled H20, and created whilst at Coed Lletywalter Rainforest, it is a conversation regarding the importance of balance within the eco system, between trees, and climate change. The piece also explores how the ancient Celts spoke through a language of the trees, and how Cheryl’s life as a sound artist and composer was born from repurposing hearing aid and biomedical technology.
Cheryl’s other work includes the symphonic poem ‘Cân y Coed / Song of the Trees’ which delves beneath the bark and brings together the rainforests for the first time in thousands of years. Launching in June 2022 at the National Botanic Garden of Wales in their Woods of the World Arboretum, her QR coded Cân y Coed Sound Trail will also be placed in situ in the rainforests themselves by Coed Cadw (The Woodland Trust), allowing the listener to stand with the trees, and listen.
Cân y Coed is a Main Commission with Unlimited, funded by the Arts Council of Wales.
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