REN KAINTH
About me
Ecology, Sound & TechnologyMy work unfolds at the intersection of ecology, sound, and technology - an evolving practice of climate sound art shaped by experiments with field recordings, tactile audio, and responsive environments. Using an array of microphones to listen in detail to the nonhuman world, I explore how sound can be both a method of inquiry and a medium for connection.I’m particularly drawn to how deep listening, embodied, and immersive sound can reframe our relationship with the more-than-human. Seaweed crackles, soil breathes, wind bends through branches, and decay whispers beneath our feet. By attuning to these subtle languages, ecological systems begin to reveal themselves not as abstractions or crises, but as living, entangled relationships we’re already woven into.This practice is also about creating space: shared environments where sound becomes a threshold for attunement, and reflection. Through collective listening, I hope we can encounter not only the fragility of ecosystems but also our own place within them - and maybe even glimpse other ways of being together on this planetStudies & ExplorationsI first trained at Alchemea Audio College of Engineering (2003), grounding myself in the craft of audio. A music production workshop with Detroit legend Mike Huckaby (2015) pushed my practice deeper into rhythm and texture.In 2023, I studied Sound Arts: Sound, Society & Nature at The Margate School, exploring how sound moves through communities and environments. In 2024, I took part in the first of a series of Deep Listening practitioner courses with the Center for Deep Listening, expanding my approach to listening as a creative and embodied practice.In 2025, I had joined Camp FR to focus on ecoacoustics, location sound, and field recording - listening more closely to the living world and further enhancing my practice.Alongside this, I’m studying with DeepLearning.AI, exploring data analytics and generative AI as new tools for connecting technology, sound, and ecology.
Installations
Symphonic Ecologies
December 2025 - Venue TBA (Margate, Kent, UK)An evolving sound work shaped by the atmosphere itself.Harnessing the invisible rhythms of wind, temperature, and rain, this installation transforms meteorological presence into sonic presence. A custom-built circuit acts as listener and interpreter - translating the sky’s shifting moods into a dynamic composition that breathes with the elements.Fragments of sound - field recordings from Margate's coastline, voices and echoes from its community are sculpted, reshaped, and set adrift within a surround sound environment. Visitors are immersed in a living soundscape, one that changes moment to moment in conversation with the weather.Light and projection accompany the sound, pulsing and refracting with the same data, offering a synesthetic glimpse into the patterns of an unseen world.The work exists as both instrument and collaborator. Future iterations are planned in dialogue with artists and labels exploring the intersection of nature, sound, and signal.
Experiments
Examples of current experiments and/or potential installationsPlantscapeA sonic exploration into the secret life of plants.This work listens beyond the human range - tuning into the quiet signals, vibrations, and rhythms that course through stems and leaves. Light, water, touch, and growth all leave traces, inaudible but constant. Here, they are amplified, translated, reimagined.Through real-time processing, the subtle gestures of plants emerge as sound: rustlings from within, pulses of photosynthesis, tremors from unseen interactions. A world not silent, but simply unheard.Melodic GrowthWhere plants and machines co-compose.Inside a contained ecosystem, growth becomes choreography. A custom circuit oversees the flow of water - its decisions shaping not just the life of the plants, but the rhythm of sound.Each moment of hydration, each pause, becomes a gesture in an evolving electronic score. The plants live in a feedback loop of care and sound, rooted in one system, sustained by another.Organic time meets synthetic pulse. A garden that listens, responds, and plays.
Sound Walks
Guided Bat Walks in MargateTwice a month from May to November, I guide dusk bat walks around Margate and nearby areas.Using bat detectors, we’ll tune into the ultrasonic calls of these nocturnal creatures as they emerge at twilight - an evening of quiet observation and listening beyond the human range.All ages welcome
Children accompanied by an adult
FreeDeep Listening WalksFolks can also join me on sound walks/deep listening walks through Margate day or night, across all seasons.Using specialist microphones, we’ll explore the hidden layers of sound beyond human hearing. I’ll guide you to quiet pockets away from noise pollution, where the environment reveals its subtler voice.Walks can focus on specific themes or unfold more intuitively.
Music
I produce ambient and psychedelic electronic music - sometimes woven with field recordings, sometimes purely synthetic.This page will soon feature samples from my own sound and listening walks - snapshots of hidden sonic worlds and samples of my solo and collaborative work
Contact
Connect with me to discuss collaborations, projects, or to plan a sound walk together.